{"id":28800,"date":"2014-11-23T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28800"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:24:37","slug":"the-odd-names-of-britain-now-available-as-a-wall-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/the-odd-names-of-britain-now-available-as-a-wall-map\/","title":{"rendered":"The odd names of Britain &#8211; now available as a wall map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most denizens of North America, I&#8217;ve sometimes stumbled upon odd village names in Britain. There are some weird and daffy names still in use in the UK and you can now get a wall map highlighting a large number of them:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/europe\/uk\/11240843\/Britains-silliest-place-names.html?frame=3111558\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Weird-British-place-names.png\" alt=\"Weird British place names\" width=\"859\" height=\"618\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Weird-British-place-names.png 859w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Weird-British-place-names-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Weird-British-place-names-480x345.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Weird-British-place-names-853x613.png 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to Jessica Brisbane for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most denizens of North America, I&#8217;ve sometimes stumbled upon odd village names in Britain. There are some weird and daffy names still in use in the UK and you can now get a wall map highlighting a large number of them: H\/T to Jessica Brisbane for the link.<\/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":[4,7,73],"tags":[624],"class_list":["post-28800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-randomness","tag-maps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7uw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800","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=28800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28804,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions\/28804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}