{"id":200,"date":"2016-04-26T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/?p=200"},"modified":"2016-04-26T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:55:12","slug":"under-the-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/en\/under-the-cork\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDER THE CORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Have you ever wondered what&#8217;s inside a KLM house? Guess what, if you remove the seal, in the chimney, you&#8217;ll come across a neat little cork, measuring only 22 mm x 12,5 mm x 8,5 mm. Cork used as a cap is actually a 17th-century invention, and about the same time genever, or Dutch Gin was created. This is what you find under the cork in the chimney of a KLM-house. The story of the cork itself is fascinating too&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stripping the outer bark of a cork oak tree in full growth is a delicate operation. The harvesting of cork is performed by hand, and happens about 15 times during the life of the tree. The harvesting generally improves the trees health and vigor. The cork of a KLM house comes from Portugal, where it is harvested by members of the family Kies, the oldest Dutch cork company of the Netherlands, established in 1845.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Schoorsteen-kurk-oogst-285x300.jpg\" alt=\"Schoorsteen kurk oogst\" width=\"232\" height=\"244\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Schermafbeelding-2016-04-26-om-20.52.54-300x246.png\" alt=\"Schermafbeelding 2016-04-26 om 20.52.54\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what&#8217;s inside a KLM house? Guess what, if you remove the seal, in the chimney, you&#8217;ll come across a neat little cork, measuring only 22 mm x 12,5 mm x 8,5 mm. Cork used as a cap is actually a 17th-century invention, and about the same time genever, or Dutch Gin &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,19],"tags":[61,45],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-news","tag-klm-houses","tag-trivia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UNDER THE CORK - MarkMedia &amp; Art<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kingdombythesea.nl\/site\/en\/under-the-cork\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNDER THE CORK - MarkMedia &amp; Art\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have you ever wondered what&#8217;s inside a KLM house? 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