{"id":1410,"date":"2012-04-26T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T04:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2013-04-17T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T02:48:56","slug":"almanac-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/1410\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac &#8211; Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Laurent in the pillory, it seems a good time to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/crime.php\" target=\"_blank\">punishment<\/a> in the Almanac. The pillory (and its close relative the stocks) were a popular form of punishment in colonial times. In a small community like Sherbourg, being put &#8220;on display&#8221; in the town square was a humiliating and dreadful experience that continues to sting for a long time after you get out of the pillory.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I have a couple more artists Britt and I met at Pittsburgh Comicon. <a href=\"http:\/\/wootlabs.thewebcomic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wootlabs<\/a> by Joe Kleinman is a webcomic of a happy family of mad scientists. I love the look and pacing of this comic. Rich Bernatovech of <a href=\"http:\/\/drumfishproductions.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drumfish Productions<\/a> is releasing NeverMinds. NeverMinds is the code name for a secret, superhuman organization that offers security and investigation&#8230;for a fee. Great stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Laurent in the pillory, it seems a good time to discuss punishment in the Almanac. The pillory (and its close relative the stocks) were a popular form of punishment in colonial times. In a small community like Sherbourg, being put &#8220;on display&#8221; in the town square was a humiliating and dreadful experience that continues [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","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=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}