{"id":1655,"date":"2006-10-21T19:08:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2006-10-21T19:08:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T19:08:52","slug":"old-mother-red-cap-and-mother-shipton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Old Mother Red Cap and Mother Shipton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are two of the lost &#8220;famous female&#8221; pubs of London &#8211; a loss chronicled today by <a href = \"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/history\/story\/0,,1927831,00.html\">Marina Warner<\/a> in the Guardian. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;when the old hags drop from view, so does an idea of human vagaries and fates, of idiosyncratic and oddball people, with strange histories and surprising fortunes &#8211; good and bad. Pub names and signs are some of the oldest surviving traces of exchanges and folklore in a particular place. More and more names and phrases in the public arena are tied to adverts and commodities &#8211; global creep of meanings for everybody and no one. They&#8217;ve gone because no pub owner wants to admit that there&#8217;s any link between disreputable winos and what they are selling. Perhaps they&#8217;ve disappeared, too, because we&#8217;ve become sensitive to the sight of derelicts with their tins of Strongbow and plastic bagged bottles and don&#8217;t want to be reminded. Perhaps the old hag is just too rude for the times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are two of the lost &#8220;famous female&#8221; pubs of London &#8211; a loss chronicled today by Marina Warner in the Guardian. &#8230;when the old hags drop from view, so does an idea of human vagaries and fates, of idiosyncratic and oddball people, with strange histories and surprising fortunes &#8211; good and bad. Pub names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-modern-history","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}