{"id":2278,"date":"2013-01-25T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2013-04-17T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T03:10:57","slug":"almanac-16th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/2278\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac &#8211; 16th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our procession through the years continues with the <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/timeline.php#16thCentury\" target=\"_blank\">16th Century<\/a> in today&#8217;s Almanac. It is full of interesting facts. Like that Sherbourg was saved in 1595 by mayonnaise. The colonists used the recently invented condiment to suffocate the typhus-bearing lice that was infesting the town. While the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/parasites\/lice\/head\/gen_info\/faqs_treat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Disease Control <\/a>isn&#8217;t sure whether this works or not in the real world, for the purposes of Corthis, it does.<\/p>\n<p>I got the convention report for Ohayocon uploaded this afternoon. It&#8217;s in photo form since people seem to enjoy that the most. You can find it on Snow by Night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SnowByNight\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0I also invite all of you to submit something to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/artcontest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Art Contest<\/a>. Entries are due March 1, and there are cash prizes for the first 8 spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our procession through the years continues with the 16th Century in today&#8217;s Almanac. It is full of interesting facts. Like that Sherbourg was saved in 1595 by mayonnaise. The colonists used the recently invented condiment to suffocate the typhus-bearing lice that was infesting the town. While the Center for Disease Control isn&#8217;t sure whether this [&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-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}