{"id":5861,"date":"2018-07-19T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2018-07-19T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:33:44","slug":"exposing-a-fraudulent-astrologer-circa-the-1670s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/07\/19\/exposing-a-fraudulent-astrologer-circa-the-1670s\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing a fraudulent astrologer, circa the 1670s."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/rumbling-fraudulent-astrologers-1680s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/rumbling-fraudulent-astrologers-1680s.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"503\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5862\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exposing a fraudulent astrologer in England, circa the 1670s.  <\/p>\n<p>The hero Hudibras wants advice on how best to woo a widow, but first he needs to assure himself the astrologer is &#8216;the real thing&#8217;. The astrologer has got some false information about Hudibras, by a roundabout route, and he feeds the information back to Hudibras in the guise of a supposed astrology reading. Thus the hero knows the astrologer to be a fraud. Hudibras holds them at bay with his sword, while his squire goes to fetch a constable.  Illustration for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hudibras\">Hudibras<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposing a fraudulent astrologer in England, circa the 1670s. The hero Hudibras wants advice on how best to woo a widow, but first he needs to assure himself the astrologer is &#8216;the real thing&#8217;. The astrologer has got some false information about Hudibras, by a roundabout route, and he feeds the information back to Hudibras [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}