{"id":2426,"date":"2017-02-04T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2017-02-04T06:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:30:46","slug":"the-art-of-cockfighting-a-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2017\/02\/04\/the-art-of-cockfighting-a-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of cockfighting; a handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historical fiction writers may want to known how cock-fighting was done, in places such as <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2015\/09\/25\/burt-bentleys-burslem\/\">Cock&#8217;s Yard<\/a> in the old days of Burslem.  New at the Hathi Trust, there&#8217;s a free scan of a book that lays out the whole thing: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=coo.31924003114778;view=1up;seq=7\">The art of cockfighting; a handbook for beginners and old timers<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/cockfi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/cockfi.jpg\" alt=\"cockfi\" width=\"576\" height=\"766\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/battle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/battle.jpg\" alt=\"battle\" width=\"439\" height=\"147\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ugly and cruel, but a part of that bygone Victorian past that a writer might hang a novel, a play or a graphic novel on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical fiction writers may want to known how cock-fighting was done, in places such as Cock&#8217;s Yard in the old days of Burslem. New at the Hathi Trust, there&#8217;s a free scan of a book that lays out the whole thing: The art of cockfighting; a handbook for beginners and old timers. Ugly and cruel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}