{"id":1285,"date":"2012-03-15T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T03:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2013-04-17T21:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T02:35:27","slug":"almanac-muskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/1285\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac &#8211; Muskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Ald&#8217;s history in the military, this week&#8217;s Almanac entry is <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/weapons.php#Muskets\" target=\"_blank\">muskets<\/a>. Muskets are a necessity in colonial Aradie just like they were in colonial North America. The importance of the musket can be seen by the number of phrases in our language that arose from muskets &#8211; lock, stock, and barrel,\u00a0a flash in the pan, going off half cocked, and drop the hammer.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Snow by Night<\/em> team has received an invitation to <a href=\"http:\/\/interventioncon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Intervention<\/a> on September 21-23 in Rockville, MD. This fabulous convention is a great way to meet a lot of creators of Internet media. It&#8217;s not just webcomics. They have a diverse array of guests. I highly recommend coming to check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Ald&#8217;s history in the military, this week&#8217;s Almanac entry is muskets. Muskets are a necessity in colonial Aradie just like they were in colonial North America. The importance of the musket can be seen by the number of phrases in our language that arose from muskets &#8211; lock, stock, and barrel,\u00a0a flash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac","category-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}