{"id":1285,"date":"2009-01-17T07:40:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T06:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-01-17T07:40:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T06:40:28","slug":"would-you-like-to-have-lived-in-the-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Would you like to have lived in the Middle Ages?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not me &#8211; if I had any doubts, they would have been utterly dispelled by my reading of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Medieval-Britain-Short-Introduction-Introductions\/dp\/019285402X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1231183848&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction&#8221;<\/a> [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history.html#MB\">here<\/a>].<br \/>\nIt was a time of terrible social and personal turmoil: regular civil wars, endless conflicts with France; famine, disease and plague, domination of the Church, a preoccupation with damnation. If I&#8217;d managed to stay alive, none of my favourite interests would have been open to me: no printed books, no radio or television, no films, no Internet, few desserts, and no chances for international travel (except on the Crusades).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not me &#8211; if I had any doubts, they would have been utterly dispelled by my reading of &#8220;Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction&#8221; [my review here]. It was a time of terrible social and personal turmoil: regular civil wars, endless conflicts with France; famine, disease and plague, domination of the Church, a preoccupation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}