{"id":384,"date":"2004-03-29T08:39:42","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2004\/03\/29\/arrogant-hermit-arthur-versus-the-badger\/"},"modified":"2006-03-25T14:36:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T21:36:56","slug":"arrogant-hermit-arthur-versus-the-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/arrogant-hermit-arthur-versus-the-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Arrogant hermit&#8221;: Arthur versus the badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: \"arrogant hermit\". I see a sword. I see a stone. I see a bone. The future becomes clear.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists hope to unearth the remains of medieval knight Galgano Guidotti, an arrogant and lustful knight who later became a hermit. A sword reputed to have been miraculously thrust into a stone by him in 1180 sets over a 6 1\/2 by 3-foot cavity that may be his tomb. <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/briefs\/20040301\/sword.html\">This much you can learn without a crystal ball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I foresee that the cavity will be found to contain bones. However, a moment's glance will reveal that they are not from a human. Further analysis will confirm that they are rabbit bones, and that they have human tooth marks on them. I ... uh ... \"aftsee\" (?) that the rabbit was eaten by Guidotti after his sword pierced both the stone and the rabbit in a single blow. I foresee that speculation will arise that this rabbit is the real rabbit from the Monty Python version of the King Arthur legend. I further foresee that as a result of the confirmation provided by the rabbit, Monty Python's Holy Grail will be taught as historical fact at the university level.<\/p>\n<p>Can this future be avoided? It can by releasing an edited version of the movie featuring a vicious badger with sharp pointy teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: \"arrogant hermit\". I see a sword. I see a stone. I see a bone. The future becomes clear. Archaeologists hope to unearth the remains of medieval knight Galgano Guidotti, an arrogant and lustful knight who later became a hermit. A sword reputed to have been miraculously...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/arrogant-hermit-arthur-versus-the-badger\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-divined-comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}