{"id":87571,"date":"2024-06-01T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87571"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:22:10","slug":"i-plead-the-pith-a-history-of-the-pith-helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/06\/01\/i-plead-the-pith-a-history-of-the-pith-helmet\/","title":{"rendered":"I plead the Pith: a History of the Pith Helmet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLh4PsjAHws?si=wW9TZnNa4usHhCT7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HatHistorian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jun 1, 2022<\/p>\n<p>A symbol of exploration, tropical adventure, and colonialism, the pith helmet has had a long history since its origins as the salakot, a Philippine sun hat. Through many iterations, it had become one of the most famous hats out there, a powerful part of popular imagination. <\/p>\n<p>The helmets I wear in this video come respectively from a gift from a family friend (so I don&#8217;t know where it was bought, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalemporium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.historicalemporium.com\/<\/a>, and Amazon.com. The red tunic comes from thehistorybunker.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Title sequence designed by Alexandre Mahler<br \/>\nam.design@live.com<\/p>\n<p>This video was done for entertainment and educational purposes. No copyright infringement of any sort was intended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HatHistorian Published Jun 1, 2022 A symbol of exploration, tropical adventure, and colonialism, the pith helmet has had a long history since its origins as the salakot, a Philippine sun hat. Through many iterations, it had become one of the most famous hats out there, a powerful part of popular imagination. The helmets I wear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,21,4,1117,7,23,5,246],"tags":[618,1011,45,485],"class_list":["post-87571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-britain","category-france","category-history","category-india","category-military","category-ww1","tag-clothing","tag-colonialism","tag-nostalgia","tag-philippines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mMr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87572,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87571\/revisions\/87572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}