{"id":40,"date":"2007-08-25T18:10:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T18:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proterra.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/25\/an-afternoon-in-1642\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T18:10:50","slug":"an-afternoon-in-1642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/2007\/08\/25\/an-afternoon-in-1642\/","title":{"rendered":"An afternoon in 1642"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsdown.demon.co.uk\/village.htm\">Little Woodham<\/a> this afternoon - the \"1642 Living History Village\". <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-hodgson.com\/\">James <\/a>is a long standing member and encouraged me to come down; some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calanais\/sets\/72157601652345856\/\">pictures <\/a>where required as well.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was wonderful, and the site is in amazing small piece of oak woodland. Absolutely English!!  Together with the wittle and daube buildings it is a very impressive place. After a while you really start to forget that it's 2007. The civil war <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portsdown.demon.co.uk\/cwp.htm\">siege of Portsmouth<\/a> was occurring this week in 1642; one thing that struck home is that 1642 what we now think of as being close wasn't then. Scale was very different.<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful people with great stories to tell of life and living. Narrowly missed being signed up to be a Pikeman.. best job for a gentleman apparently. Attention to detail is amazing - sausages in the chimney to smoke and kill the maggots.<\/p>\n<p>My knowledge of 1642 is a bit rusty - better brush up for next time as well. Sadly some of my photo knowledge left me as well and the VR lens didn't perform as well as I had hoped it would do.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Bill Bryson \"Go; go now\"....   (though I'd like to keep my car if you don't mind... plus it didn't exist in 1642 anyway)<\/p>\n<p class=\"flickr-frame\"> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calanais\/1232484889\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1309\/1232484889_22d269475a.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/calanais\/1232484889\/\">Wheelwright<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/calanais\/\">Calanais<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went down to Little Woodham this afternoon &#8211; the &#8220;1642 Living History Village&#8221;. James is a long standing member and encouraged me to come down; some pictures where required as well. The weather was wonderful, and the site is in amazing small piece of oak woodland. Absolutely English!! Together&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/2007\/08\/25\/an-afternoon-in-1642\/\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proterra.me.uk\/nx01\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}