{"id":11682,"date":"2008-12-04T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/12\/04\/11682.html"},"modified":"2008-12-04T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T17:51:00","slug":"chaucer-hath-a-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/12\/04\/chaucer-hath-a-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaucer hath a blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just happened across <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/\">Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog<\/a> (\"A Directorie of Wondirful Thinges that are Loial to Engelonde\"). I have a vague idea that I had heard of a Chaucer blog before, but I don't think I've read this one before.<\/p>\n<p>And I haven't read much of it now. But here are a few bits I like, from what I've seen so far (mostly from the \"Favourite Posts\" list on the left side of the blog page):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A description of the festival of <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/new-order-hot-newes-on-blazinge-fellow.html\">Blazinge Fellow<\/a>, where \"many peple come togedir to express their joye and devocioun to the institutional Church and the law-makinge State in fantastic maner,\" concluding, of course, with \"the applicacioun of flaymes to the Fellow\" (\"aftir a lengthi heresie trial\").<\/li>\n<li>A list of <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/to-kalamazoo-wyth-love.html\">Lynes of Picke-Vppe<\/a>, such as \"Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular\" and \"Nyce bootes. Wanna swyve?\" (Scroll down a page or so to see the list.)<\/li>\n<li>An entry in which Chaucer comes up with an <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/idea-for-poeme.html\">idea for a poeme<\/a>, which he decides to \"Organise ynto fragmentz, for ich trowe that a worke in \u2018fragmentz\u2019 shall appeale to Vmberto Eco.\" Among other things, this entry includes the phrase \"absolvtely fabliaux.\" Also descriptions of some tales, such as: \"The Shipmannes Tale: Jak Sparrowe helpeth a yonge smithe to wynne his noble ladye, and the yonge smithe helpeth Jak Sparrowe to scapen from ghost pyrates. Howe avvesome ys that? Ghostes + Pyrates!\"<\/li>\n<li>A description of Chaucer's <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/ich-and-perle-poete-on-mont-dorse.html\">tryst with the Pearl Poet<\/a>, featuring the line \"I wolde I knewe how of thee I might be Quitten!\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just happened across Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog (&#8220;A Directorie of Wondirful Thinges that are Loial to Engelonde&#8221;)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}