{"id":245,"date":"2005-12-09T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-01-10T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:47:44","slug":"the-enigma-of-the-voynich-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/12\/the-enigma-of-the-voynich-manchester.html","title":{"rendered":"The Enigma of the Voynich Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time staring at the curtains lately. More to the point, I&#8217;ve been trying to read the curtains. I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask the landlord where he got them from, in case I can trace them back to once having <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/09\/filler-by-proxy-iii-voynich-manuscript.html\">hung in John Dee&#8217;s library<\/a>.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Enhanced to show texture.  Less inspiring than regurgitating Cicero.\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/curtain01.jpg\" \/><br \/>This is a transcription of my soft furnishings (from top left): <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Elegni <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">INDULED PATRIBUS <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Gracia. Agapdo oum uiara qume oares elegni. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Hbidem in ilapide corosfo. A Sali Domitiano Aq. Tribo kir iuno sing. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Receaant <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">aotro ulyemno mi adra etera praasrdyo foment praeaonia receaant ueterd aond funt anuud. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">It feels a bit like reading J.K. Rowling, only with most of the boring bits taken out and better cod-Latin. If you want to design your own curtains, pillowslips or antimacassars, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsum.com\/\">useful tools online<\/a> if you don&#8217;t trust your own neologising skills.  I&#8217;m not feverish enough to believe that the curtains are trying to tell me secrets but, at the very least, I think I&#8217;ve discovered the inspiration behind Blogger&#8217;s word verification system for comments.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"I made this myself! It's WORD ART!\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/wordvery.jpg\" \/> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time staring at the curtains lately. More to the point, I&#8217;ve been trying to read the curtains. I&#8217;ve been meaning to ask the landlord where he got them from, in case I can trace them back to once having hung in John Dee&#8217;s library.This is a transcription of my soft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}