{"id":495,"date":"2012-03-08T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:20:13","slug":"death-and-wildfowl-in-north-staffordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/03\/08\/death-and-wildfowl-in-north-staffordshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Death and wildfowl in North Staffordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffspasttrack.org.uk\/exhibit\/ilm\/Introduction\/Customs%20and%20Superstitions.htm\">interesting addition<\/a> about my theory on the links between North Staffordshire and certain beliefs about wildfowl, as explored in the central section of my book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/History-Burslem-Fowlea-Valley-ebook\/dp\/B00472O6JS\/\">A History of Burslem and the Fowlea Valley<\/a><\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A dying person should not be allowed to lie on a bed or pillow stuffed with feathers from pigeons or wild fowl.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The source is unspecified, but is either <em>The Folklore of Staffordshire<\/em>, or <em>Staffordshire Customs, Superstitions and Folklore<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting addition about my theory on the links between North Staffordshire and certain beliefs about wildfowl, as explored in the central section of my book A History of Burslem and the Fowlea Valley&#8230; &#8220;A dying person should not be allowed to lie on a bed or pillow stuffed with feathers from pigeons or wild [&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-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}