{"id":6103,"date":"2018-08-14T13:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6103"},"modified":"2018-08-14T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:46:03","slug":"tales-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/08\/14\/tales-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New to me, the book <em>Tales from the Past: Anecdotes and Incidents of North Staffordshire History<\/em> (1981), a collection of the first year (1958-59) of articles written for <em>The Sentinel<\/em> newspaper and drawn from local tales, stories and anecdotes.  The weekly series by Tom Byrne continued for a decade, 1958-68.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/past.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/past.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"590\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6104\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book was followed five years later by <em>More Tales from the Past: Anecdotes and Incidents of North Staffordshire History<\/em> (1986).<\/p>\n<p>Might be good to see a dozen or so tales from these books adapted as a comic-strip anthology.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also wonder if they have any tiny remnants of local pre-industrial folk-lore, sayings or beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New to me, the book Tales from the Past: Anecdotes and Incidents of North Staffordshire History (1981), a collection of the first year (1958-59) of articles written for The Sentinel newspaper and drawn from local tales, stories and anecdotes. The weekly series by Tom Byrne continued for a decade, 1958-68. The book was followed five [&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-6103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103","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=6103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}