{"id":52459,"date":"2019-11-05T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52459"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:52:17","slug":"dragons-the-origin-of-dragons-extra-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/dragons-the-origin-of-dragons-extra-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons &#8211; The Origin of Dragons &#8211; Extra Mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rL8qSfXIo4M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 4 Nov 2019<\/p>\n<p>Check out MinuteEarth&#8217;s video on the biology of dragons! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3n1DC_Q-2Ng\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3n1DC&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dragons are one of the most popular creatures of myth and legend and for good reason! These guys are everywhere! Almost every culture has some form of dragon tale. From the wicked wyrms of western Europe, the benevolent Lung dragons of China, the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, to the Rainbow Serpent of Aboriginal myth, dragon like figures take on many different forms and roles. But how and why do these serpentine beasts and gods appear in so many different legends? Gather round the campfire and let&#8217;s chat!<\/p>\n<p>Join the Extra Mythology Patreon! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/extramythology\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/extramythology<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-52461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_2019-11-05-Dragons-\u2013-The-Origin-of-Dragons-\u2013-Extra-Mythology.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published 4 Nov 2019 Check out MinuteEarth&#8217;s video on the biology of dragons! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3n1DC&#8230; Dragons are one of the most popular creatures of myth and legend and for good reason! These guys are everywhere! Almost every culture has some form of dragon tale. From the wicked wyrms of western Europe, the benevolent Lung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[465,331,22,62,7],"tags":[262,822],"class_list":["post-52459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-australia","category-china","category-europe","category-history","tag-culture","tag-mythology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dE7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459","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=52459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52462,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52459\/revisions\/52462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}