{"id":3678,"date":"2014-04-04T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:12:47","slug":"friday-five-literary-trivia-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five &#8211; Literary Trivia 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo<\/a>, which proves to me that the poets are just as crazy as we writers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think everyone will recognize my choice for this month&#8217;s trivia&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chaucer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chaucer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chaucer\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3679\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>When that April with his showers soote<br \/>\nThe drought of March hath pierc\u00e8d to the root . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chaucer served in the household of King Edward III, grandson of King Edward &#8220;Longshanks.&#8221; His wife was a lady-in-waiting to Lady Philippa, Edward III betrothed.<\/p>\n<p>Although only 24 were completed, Chaucer had originally intended to write 100 stories in the Canterbury Tales.<\/p>\n<p>Chaucer is known to have had two sons, but quite likely had two daughters as well. One, a nun, the other a lady-in-waiting to the young Henry IV.<\/p>\n<p>As a teenager, was employed as page to the Lady Elizabeth deBurgh, Countess of Ulster.<\/p>\n<p>Chaucer&#8217;s main patron seems to have been John of Gaunt, uncle to Richard II, regent for the boy king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is for NaPoWriMo, which proves to me that the poets are just as crazy as we writers&#8230;<br \/>\nI think everyone will recognize my choice for this month&#8217;s trivia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,1,870],"tags":[1982,1981,1979,1980,29,1701,40],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","tag-canterbury-tales","tag-chaucer","tag-napowrimo","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-trivia","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}