{"id":458,"date":"2009-06-11T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=458"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:44:11","slug":"and-dont-forget-the-eye-of-newt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"And don&#039;t forget the eye of newt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2009\/06\/04\/witch-bottle.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"witch bottle\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bottle-inside-540x380.jpg\" alt=\"witch bottle\" width=\"259\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bottle-inside-540x380.jpg 540w, http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bottle-inside-540x380-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>I thought this was pretty interesting.\u00a0 Historians have unearthed a <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2009\/06\/04\/witch-bottle.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">17th century &#8220;witch bottle&#8221;<\/span><\/a> in Greenwich, England.\u00a0 Apparently, you were supposed to bury these things upside down in your yard to keep those pesky neighborhood witches from putting a curse on you, your family, or your cow.\u00a0 Ingredients included urine, nail clippings, scraps of metal, hair, and other assorted tidbits.\u00a0 Historians have known about them from tradition and the historical record, but this one is the first to have been found intact.\u00a0 I love history, the odder the better, and this certainly fits that bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was pretty interesting.\u00a0 Historians have unearthed a 17th century &#8220;witch bottle&#8221; in Greenwich, England.\u00a0 Apparently, you were supposed to bury these things upside down in your yard to keep those pesky neighborhood witches from putting a curse on you, your family, or your cow.\u00a0 Ingredients included urine, nail clippings, scraps of metal, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-7o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}