{"id":93,"date":"2005-04-19T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-12-04T15:24:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T05:24:41","slug":"the-medieval-bestiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/04\/19\/the-medieval-bestiary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medieval Bestiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/parrot2.jpg\" alt=\"Parrot2\" title=\"Parrot2\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/>This green parrot is one of the many lovely animal illustrations catalogued on <a href=\"http:\/\/bestiary.ca\">The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages<\/a>. Its a nicely organized site, with alphabetical ordering and cross-referencing, and information about the beasts from manuscripts. For each beast there is usually a gallery of different images from different sources.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know, for example, that a <a href=\"http:\/\/bestiary.ca\/beasts\/beast262.htm\">dragon&#8217;s<\/a> strength is found in its tail, not in its teeth?  And that &#8216;it is the enemy of the elephant, and hides near paths where elephants walk so that it can catch them with its tail and kill them by suffocation&#8217;? Or that &#8216;it is because of the threat of the dragon that elephants give birth in the water&#8217;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This green parrot is one of the many lovely animal illustrations catalogued on The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages. Its a nicely organized site, with alphabetical ordering and cross-referencing, and information about the beasts from manuscripts. For each beast there is usually a gallery of different images from different sources. Did you know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,193,9],"tags":[234,233,1390,232],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures","category-illustration","category-visual-art","tag-beasts","tag-bestiary","tag-illustration","tag-medieval"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}