{"id":229496,"date":"2021-04-18T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229496"},"modified":"2021-04-18T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T07:56:20","slug":"lawyers-used-sheepskin-as-anti-fraud-device-for-hundreds-of-years-to-stop-fraudsters-pulling-the-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229496","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years to stop fraudsters pulling the woo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2021\/lawyersuseds.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Documents analysed as part of the study. Credit: Dave Lee Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis suggests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-lawyers-sheepskin-anti-fraud-device-hundreds.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents analysed as part of the study. Credit: Dave Lee Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis suggests. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-229496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-pocket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229497,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229496\/revisions\/229497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}