{"id":4617,"date":"2018-02-12T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=4617"},"modified":"2018-02-12T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T13:34:13","slug":"countrypotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/02\/12\/countrypotter\/","title":{"rendered":"CountryPotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting call, in the latest edition of <em>Country Life<\/em> magazine.  The editorial says we need a &#8220;ruralist <em>Harry Potter<\/em>&#8220;, to do what <em>Potter<\/em> did in reviving interest in learning Latin, boarding schools, school uniforms and more. This new &#8216;CountryPotter&#8217; would at least aim to revive interest the wide range of wild herbage, encouraging children to learn tree types and what &#8220;a meadow clary or a hairy mallow&#8221; looks like. More ambitiously, also the old dialect words, the ins and outs of rural crafts inc. den-making, the more reliable bits of our weather-lore, the seasons and their foods, and the ways of wildlife and horses.  A healthy disdain for health and safety, and irrational far-left eco-politics, would probably also add to the appeal to intelligent children in middle-childhood.  It would have to be about magic in some way, tightly plotted but also epic, and probably a bit &#8216;alternative history&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting call, in the latest edition of Country Life magazine. The editorial says we need a &#8220;ruralist Harry Potter&#8220;, to do what Potter did in reviving interest in learning Latin, boarding schools, school uniforms and more. This new &#8216;CountryPotter&#8217; would at least aim to revive interest the wide range of wild herbage, encouraging children [&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-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","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=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}