{"id":14443,"date":"2024-04-23T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14443"},"modified":"2024-04-23T07:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:09:34","slug":"misc-st-georges-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14443","title":{"rendered":"MiSC: St. George\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"779\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0499-1-779x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14441\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0499-1-779x1024.jpg 779w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0499-1-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0499-1-768x1009.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0499-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Raphael\u2019s <em>St George &amp; the Dragon<\/em>, c. 1505-6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, April 23rd, is St George\u2019s Day. Here in March it was celebrated early, over the last weekend. We had intended to go down to the event. But in the end we didn\u2019t bother! Both too tired, alas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"375\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14442\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0500-1.jpg 375w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/img_0500-1-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Glorification of St Felix and St Adauctus<\/em>, Carlo Innocenzo Carlone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018facts\u2019 of the supposed martyrdom of Felix and Audactus are, according to Wikipedia,&nbsp;\u2018a legendary embellishment of a misunderstood inscription\u2019. The Chinese whispers that underpin religious tradition, eh!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do I jump from George to Felix and co? Because the latter are thought to perhaps have some grounding in historical fact. Oh, and also because I like the Carlone painting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To my mind <em>all<\/em> religion is the legendary embellishment of the misunderstood. It\u2019s best hope of <em>any<\/em> connection with reality is as poetic metaphor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 23rd, is St George\u2019s Day. Here in March it was celebrated early, over the last weekend. We had intended to go down to the event. But in the end we didn\u2019t bother! Both too tired, alas. The \u2018facts\u2019 of the supposed martyrdom of Felix and Audactus are, according to Wikipedia,&nbsp;\u2018a legendary embellishment of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=14443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MiSC: St. George\u2019s Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3KX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14444,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions\/14444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}