{"id":2615,"date":"2009-09-19T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2009-09-19T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T18:42:00","slug":"on-this-that-and-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"On This, That, and the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wrestling with a Middle English text.  Specifically, the Middle English translation of <i>Prose Merlin<\/i> from the French Lancelot-Grail Cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because while I&#8217;ve been working my way through the <i>Lancelot-Grail Reader<\/i>, I found something summarized in the excerpts of the <i>Merlin<\/i> there that I needed more details about.  Fortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.rochester.edu\/Camelot\/teams\/confront.htm\">Middle English <i>Prose Merlin<\/i><\/a> is online, and I found the necessary chapter, though it wasn&#8217;t obvious at first.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it wasn&#8217;t as&#8230; <i>revelatory<\/i> as I had hoped.  Nor particularly useful, come to think of it. :-\/<\/p>\n<p>Hell Week is done and buried.  Monday, clean-up of files.  Tuesday, put together the 2010 calendar.  Wednesday, start writing November.<\/p>\n<p>I have a list of holidays I&#8217;m adding to the 2010 calendar.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/ed\/tolkienreadingday.html\">Tolkien Reading Day<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloomsday\">Bloomsday<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tartanday.org\/\">Tartan Day<\/a>.  Talk Like a Pirate Day is already on my spreadsheet.  I&#8217;m open to suggestions for other spurious and\/or geeky holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wrestling with a Middle English text. Specifically, the Middle English translation of Prose Merlin from the French Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Why? Because while I&#8217;ve been working my way through the Lancelot-Grail Reader, I found something summarized in the excerpts of the Merlin there that I needed more details about. Fortunately, the Middle English Prose<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2615\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On This, That, and the Other&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}