{"id":4558,"date":"2014-02-11T22:54:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:45:35","slug":"thing-a-day-11-medieval-e-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/11\/thing-a-day-11-medieval-e-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval E-cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/postal-grande9-76.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<i>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleiro.com\/en\/love\/76\/postcard\" target=\"_blank\">folio 21v, The Golf Book (Book of Hours)<\/a>.<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s day is this week, and while sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.someecards.com\/search-cards\/most-sent-today?t=valentine\" target=\"_blank\">someecards<\/a> have the cynical market locked up, you might be looking for something a little sweeter to share this year. How about this image? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n13. (ff. 21v-22r): Calendar pages for April; a full-page miniature (f. 21v) of a man and a woman courting, standing next to a fountain in an aristocratic garden, with, in the border below, men playing a game with a bat and ball&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><i>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=add_ms_24098\" target=\"_blank\">Add MS 24098<\/a>.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, OK, that&#8217;s not the most romantic way to put it, but the point is: it&#8217;s a couple courting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleiro.com\/en\/love.htm\">More in their &#8220;Love&#8221; section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From folio 21v, The Golf Book (Book of Hours). Valentine&#8217;s day is this week, and while sites like someecards have the cynical market locked up, you might be looking for something a little sweeter to share this year. How about this image? 13. (ff. 21v-22r): Calendar pages for April; a full-page miniature (f. 21v) [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,13,19],"tags":[23,162,295,296,394,1272],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-stuff","category-pictures","category-thing-a-day","tag-16th-c","tag-book-of-hours","tag-couple","tag-courting","tag-ecard","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-1bw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5536,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}