{"id":2604,"date":"2012-12-29T23:26:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2012-12-31T12:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:40:05","slug":"here-be-dragons-and-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Here Be Dragons (and Dinosaurs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2605\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2605\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur and Dragon\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_20121229_050001.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinosaur and Dragon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We all know that the map makers of old used to write &#x201c;Here Be Dragons&#x201d; in the uncharted areas of their maps. Except of course we&#8217;re all wrong. The Lenox Globe (ca. 1510) is only one known instance of a map which actually has that phrase (in Latin &#x2014; <em>hic sunt dracones<\/em>). Map makers did, sometimes, fill empty areas with drawings of beasts including dragons and sea serpents, but that&#8217;s <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here we have a picture of not just a dragon but a dinosaur and a dragon! They seem amazingly healthy for extinct or mythical creatures. I found them dancing in my living room and was able to photograph them a few times before they went back into hiding. It pays to carry a camera all the time, even when walking through your own house. You never know what you will come upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that the map makers of old used to write &#x201c;Here Be Dragons&#x201d; in the uncharted areas of their maps. Except of course we&#8217;re all wrong. The Lenox Globe (ca. 1510) is only one known instance of a map which actually has that phrase (in Latin &#x2014; hic sunt dracones). Map makers did, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2604\">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":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}