{"id":29267,"date":"2021-11-26T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29267"},"modified":"2021-11-26T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T14:55:42","slug":"dont-know-much-about-historical-geography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/26\/dont-know-much-about-historical-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Know Much About Historical Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I spent some time on Thanksgiving with an X-Acto knife and fifteen-year-old copies of magazines like <em>French Cottage<\/em> and <em>English Garden<\/em> that I bought at an estate sale in the autumn and that languished on the desk in my parlor ever since.  Don&#8217;t ask me what for.<\/p>\n<p>But I did snicker at this article headline.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/frenchbohemianflair.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>French Bohemian flair?  That&#8217;s like saying Canadian Mexican flair.  One suspects the headline writer only knew Bohemian as the adjective for funky hippie artistic, not that Bohemia was an actual place in Europe that&#8217;s now part of, what, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bohemia\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the Czech Republic<\/a>?  Although it has been held by the Germans and the Holy Roman Empire in the past, it has never been part of France.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, all right, I&#8217;ll tell you why: Because this autumn, I did a couple of d\u00e9coupage projects, and I bought a big bottle of Mod Podge for them, so I thought I&#8217;d pick up some magazines to look for images to use in collages.  So I finally got around to cutting out promising looking images and discarding the remainder of the magazines.  When my beautiful wife asked me about it, I gave her the real answer: I am generating raw materials for crafts that I won&#8217;t get around to doing, much like already clutter the shelves in the garage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I spent some time on Thanksgiving with an X-Acto knife and fifteen-year-old copies of magazines like French Cottage and English Garden that I bought at an estate sale in the autumn and that languished on the desk in my parlor ever since. Don&#8217;t ask me what for. But I did snicker at this article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29268,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions\/29268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}