{"id":1647,"date":"2012-08-24T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T04:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2012-08-25T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T04:00:23","slug":"our-favorite-creative-anachronist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Creative Anachronist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1649\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1649\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Stephen\" title=\"Sir Stephen\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_20120824_043312.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Stephen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you heard of the Society for Creative Anachronism? According to the blurb on their web site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SCA is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Our &#8220;Known World&#8221; consists of 19 kingdoms, with over 30,000 members residing in countries around the world. Members, dressed in clothing of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, attend events which feature tournaments, royal courts, feasts, dancing, various classes &#038; workshops, and more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, our nephew Stephen is one of them. This is him, sporting the armor he made (the metal helmet was purchased) working with his slapping dummy (see <em>The Master of Disguise<\/em>). I think I&#8217;ll leave it at that, except to say that his armor, while not necessarily enough for actual edged weapons, was pretty impressive. Oh, and perhaps it should be pointed out that in addition to dressing up like a medieval knight, he recently earned a doctorate in biostatistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of the Society for Creative Anachronism? According to the blurb on their web site: The SCA is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Our &#8220;Known World&#8221; consists of 19 kingdoms, with over 30,000 members residing in countries around the world. Members, dressed in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=1647\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}