{"id":13355,"date":"2025-04-12T16:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13355"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T20:01:47","slug":"killer-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13355","title":{"rendered":"Killer rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British humour is older than we might think.<\/p>\n<p>I just stumbled upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/04\/the-medieval-manuscript-that-features-yoda-killer-snails-mischievous-devils.html\">an article<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smithfield_Decretals\">Smithfield Decretals<\/a>. The damn thing is a volume of medieval Catholic canon law, a collection of decrees by Pope Gregory IX from the year 1230. In other words, medieval legalese, probably boring like hell.<\/p>\n<p>But the illustrations in this particular copy are another thing altogether.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13356\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/killer-rabbit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"541\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say that I finally understand where the idea of the the killer Rabbit of Caerbannog came from, in <em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Er&#8230; Happy Easter, I think?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13355' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British humour is older than we might think. I just stumbled upon an article about the Smithfield Decretals. The damn thing is a volume of medieval Catholic canon law, a collection of decrees by Pope Gregory IX from the year 1230. In other words, medieval legalese, probably boring like hell. But the illustrations in this <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13355' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-54-id","category-25-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13357,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}