{"id":16331,"date":"2026-07-09T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16331"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:01:47","slug":"doughnut-cutter-was-patented-by-j-f-blondel-in-1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16331","title":{"rendered":"Doughnut Cutter Was Patented by J. F. Blondel in 1872"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Donuts-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"208\" \/>Doughnut cutter was patented by J. F. Blondel of Thomaston, Maine in 1872<\/strong>. Blondel did not invent doughnuts, but he patented a spring-loaded cutter that sped up the doughnut-making process. Now about ten billion doughnuts are consumed in the United States each year. Children could survey friends and family about favorite types of doughnuts (cake v glazed, sprinkles v no sprinkles, etc.). Older children could read a history of doughnuts at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/the-history-of-the-doughnut-150405177\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doughnuts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doughnut cutter was patented by J. F. Blondel of Thomaston, Maine in 1872. Blondel did not invent doughnuts, but he patented a spring-loaded cutter that sped up the doughnut-making process. Now about ten billion doughnuts are consumed in the United States each year. Children could survey friends and family about favorite types of doughnuts (cake <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=16331' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4601,1744,1745,5697,227,5701],"class_list":["post-16331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4601","tag-doughnut-cutter","tag-j-f-blondel","tag-july-9","tag-maine","tag-thomaston","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29551,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions\/29551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}