{"id":17290,"date":"2012-10-12T07:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17290"},"modified":"2012-10-12T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T12:46:57","slug":"one-for-the-heralds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/12\/one-for-the-heralds\/","title":{"rendered":"One for the heralds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list (<a href=\"http:\/\/lists.herald.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/mailman\/listinfo\/lois-bujold\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lists.herald.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/mailman\/listinfo\/lois-bujold<\/a>), Eric Oppen posted this in an off-topic thread about clothing trends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever someone starts waxing envious in my presence about foreign  countries&#8217; practice of wearing school uniforms, and wishes the same  on American kids, I like to respond:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a wonderful idea! And I know just the sort needed! The colors would be &#8220;barry argent and sable, semee&#8217; of pheons, countercharged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most people don&#8217;t get the joke, but I said that in front of several SCA heralds once, who were all highly amused and said I was being  quite multicultural.<\/p>\n<p>(For those not familiar with heraldic language, what I am suggesting is uniforms featuring horizontal black-and-white stripes, scattered with &#8220;broad arrowheads&#8221; white on black and black on white. IOW, combining the features of traditional US and UK prison uniforms.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted with Eric&#8217;s permission, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list (http:\/\/lists.herald.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/mailman\/listinfo\/lois-bujold), Eric Oppen posted this in an off-topic thread about clothing trends: Whenever someone starts waxing envious in my presence about foreign countries&#8217; practice of wearing school uniforms, and wishes the same on American kids, I like to respond: &#8220;That&#8217;s a wonderful idea! And I know just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[79,7,57],"tags":[374,568],"class_list":["post-17290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history","category-humour","tag-children","tag-sca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4uS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17291,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions\/17291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}