{"id":31909,"date":"2024-02-19T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31909"},"modified":"2024-02-19T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:06:12","slug":"an-indiana-jones-related-anecdote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/an-indiana-jones-related-anecdote\/","title":{"rendered":"An Indiana Jones-Related Anecdote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So when I popped in <em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/em> on Saturday night to complete my viewing of the trilogy, I said to my beautiful wife, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to watch <em>Indiana Jones and Troilus and Criseyde<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I had to repeat it a couple of times, and she said after I explained a bit, &#8220;Oh, <em>Troilus and Cressida<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, gentle reader.  My mother-in-law taught Shakespeare, so my wife knows the story as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troilus_and_Cressida\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Troilus and Cressida<\/em><\/a>.  But I have read the Chaucer poem <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troilus_and_Criseyde\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Troilus and Criseyde<\/em><\/a> where she has not, and I was using the Chaucer title as a pun.  <em>Criseyde<\/em> rhymes with <em>Crusade<\/em>, you see, whereas <em>Cressida<\/em> clearly does not.<\/p>\n<p>Normal people do not have this problem, and I suspect few modern professors do, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when I popped in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on Saturday night to complete my viewing of the trilogy, I said to my beautiful wife, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to watch Indiana Jones and Troilus and Criseyde.&#8221; I had to repeat it a couple of times, and she said after I explained a bit, &#8220;Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909","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=31909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31911,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31909\/revisions\/31911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}