{"id":55113,"date":"2016-07-15T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eleanor_parker-some_miracles_of_st_swithun\/"},"modified":"2016-07-15T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:45:37","slug":"eleanor_parker-some_miracles_of_st_swithun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55113","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Parker&#8211;Some Miracles of St Swithun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;St Swithun&#8217;s day if thou dost rain<br \/>\nFor forty days it will remain;<br \/>\nSt Swithun&#8217;s day if thou be fair<br \/>\nFor forty days &#8217;twill rain na mair.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this little bit of weather-lore, St Swithun, who died in c.863, is one of the few Anglo-Saxon saints most people have heard of. This is a bit odd when you consider how many fascinating Anglo-Saxon saints actually did important and interesting things and get no attention at all, while what we know about Swithun&#8217;s life could be summarised very quickly:<\/p>\n<p>1) he was Bishop of Winchester<br \/>\n2) he did the usual things Anglo-Saxon bishops did, repairing churches, witnessing charters, etc.<br \/>\n3) he died in c.863.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/07\/some-miracles-of-st-swithun.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;St Swithun&#8217;s day if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain; St Swithun&#8217;s day if thou be fair For forty days &#8217;twill rain na mair.&#8217; Thanks to this little bit of weather-lore, St Swithun, who died in c.863,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55113\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,50,74,186,389,635,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}