{"id":529,"date":"2012-04-17T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2012-04-17T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T12:48:14","slug":"shropshire-jibes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/04\/17\/shropshire-jibes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shropshire jibes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of the lighthearted jibes that Staffordshire folk used to make of their neighbors living over in Shropshire&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The idea of going to live in Shropshire! Why, the Shropshire man threw down corn to [en]tice the weather-cock off the [church] steeple!&#8221; (Wednesfield, about 1890.) <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Shropshire people put a frog in a cage, and thought it was a canary.&#8221; (F.T., gunner R.H.A., Whitsuntide, 1896.) <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a Shropshire present, giving away what you don&#8217;t want yourself.&#8221; (M.N., Norbury, 1888.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <em>Folklore: a quarterly review<\/em> (The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society), Vol. XX, 1909.<\/p>\n<p>The latter perhaps relevant to Tolkien&#8217;s practice of giving &#8220;mathoms&#8221; in the Shire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of the lighthearted jibes that Staffordshire folk used to make of their neighbors living over in Shropshire&#8230; &#8220;The idea of going to live in Shropshire! Why, the Shropshire man threw down corn to [en]tice the weather-cock off the [church] steeple!&#8221; (Wednesfield, about 1890.) &#8220;The Shropshire people put a frog in a cage, and [&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-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}