{"id":14271,"date":"2014-04-10T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T11:56:45","slug":"some-of-the-many-myths-in-our-understanding-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14271","title":{"rendered":"Some of the many myths in our understanding of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Offa&#8217;s Dyke was not King Offa&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>Admiral Nelson did not wear an eye patch.<\/li>\n<li>Napoleon was not short.<\/li>\n<li>King Harold did not get an arrow in the eye at the Battle of Hastings.<\/li>\n<li>The Salem witches were not burned at the stake.<\/li>\n<li>Feminist protestors did not burn their bras.<\/li>\n<li>Cleopatra did not die of a snake bite.<\/li>\n<li>Vikings did not wear horned helmets.<\/li>\n<li>Marie Antoinette did not say &#8220;Let them eat cake&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/urban-myths-past-burning-bras-3394530\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offa&#8217;s Dyke was not King Offa&#8217;s. Admiral Nelson did not wear an eye patch. Napoleon was not short. King Harold did not get an arrow in the eye at the Battle of Hastings. The Salem witches were not burned at the stake. Feminist protestors did not burn their bras. Cleopatra did not die of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14271","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\/14271","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=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14279,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions\/14279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}