{"id":2787,"date":"2024-08-23T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2024-08-23T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:39:03","slug":"there-be-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/there-be-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"There Be Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of the New Art Examiner is a your-de-force of articles about dragons and dragon literature and myths around the world. But that was not the most interesting element to the theme because ceramics and paintings exist dealing with every myth. No, the most ingesting thing was the Oxford English Dictionary derivation of the word.<\/p>\n<p>Forms: 3\u20134 dragun, 3\u20136 dragone, dragoun(e, 4 dragowne, 4\u2013 dragon.<\/p>\n<p>[a. F. dragon:\u2014L. drac\u014dn-em (nom. draco), a. Gr. \u03b4\u03c1\u1f71\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd, -\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1; usually referred to \u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba- strong aorist stem of \u03b4\u03ad\u03c1\u03ba\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 to see clearly.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To see clearly? Doesn&#8217;t that give a whole new spin to the serpent in Eden myth.<\/p>\n<p>#eden<\/p>\n<p>#dragon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of the New Art Examiner is a your-de-force of articles about dragons and dragon literature and myths around the world. But that was not the most interesting element to the theme because ceramics and paintings exist dealing with every myth. No, the most ingesting thing was the Oxford English Dictionary derivation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1006,1005],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-dragon","tag-garden-of-eden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}