{"id":6724,"date":"2026-08-24T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:18:12","slug":"waffle-iron-was-patented-in-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6724","title":{"rendered":"Waffle Iron Was Patented in 1869"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waffle iron was patented in 1869<\/strong> by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York. Various forms of waffle makers were around as early as the 1300\u2019s. However, his stove-top waffle maker had a handle and a clasp to keep the iron closed when it was flipped over. General Electric produced the first electric waffle maker in 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waffle iron was patented in 1869 by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York. Various forms of waffle makers were around as early as the 1300\u2019s. However, his stove-top waffle maker had a handle and a clasp to keep the iron closed when it was flipped over. General Electric produced the first electric waffle maker in <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6724' 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":[4723,5806,1294,1295,130,441,1293],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4723","tag-august-24","tag-cornelius-swarthout","tag-general-electric","tag-new-york","tag-troy","tag-waffle-iron","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\/6724","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=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}