{"id":17123,"date":"2018-03-22T00:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T07:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17123"},"modified":"2018-03-22T00:43:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T07:43:39","slug":"paying-their-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/03\/22\/paying-their-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying their rent"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I recently listened to James Keelaghan\u2019s version of the shanty \u201cRoll Down,\u201d by Peter Bellamy, and was struck by this line:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Then, sweet ladies of Plymouth, we\u2019ll pay all your rent<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I thought, <i>Huh, that seems like an odd thing for the sailors to do. More like a charitable foundation than like stereotypical sailors on shore leave. That\u2019s kinda neat.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<p>\u2026and then I realized that the idea was that the sailors were paying the women for services rendered, and thereby providing them with money for paying rent.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","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=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17126,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions\/17126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}