{"id":484,"date":"2012-02-23T05:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-02-23T05:27:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:27:39","slug":"children-and-rainbows-in-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/02\/23\/children-and-rainbows-in-staffordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Children and rainbows in Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many folk beliefs went beyond merely avoiding the rainbow&#8217;s spiritual power [a rainbow was believed to harm anyone who pointed to it] &mdash; they try to manipulate it. [&#8230;] Children in Staffordshire, England, attempted to [break the power of rainbows to harm a pointing person] by crossing a pair of sticks or straws on the ground and placing a stone or two atop them, the goal being literally to cross out [the power of] any rainbow they saw.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; from: Raymond L. Lee, Jr. and Alistair B. Fraser. <em>The Rainbow Bridge: rainbows in art, myth, and science<\/em>.  Penn State University Press and SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 2001.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many folk beliefs went beyond merely avoiding the rainbow&#8217;s spiritual power [a rainbow was believed to harm anyone who pointed to it] &mdash; they try to manipulate it. [&#8230;] Children in Staffordshire, England, attempted to [break the power of rainbows to harm a pointing person] by crossing a pair of sticks or straws on the [&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-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}