{"id":274,"date":"2007-10-30T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/the-great-squirt\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T18:54:00","slug":"the-great-squirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/the-great-squirt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Squirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a huge kick out of this. <\/p>\n<p>From The Daily Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The instruction booklet was a little worse for wear. But then it does date back to 1577.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t stop a group of gardening enthusiasts using it to recreate an Elizabethan watering contraption known as the &#8220;Great Squirt&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=489467&#038;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a>, complete with a drawing of the original and a photo of the recreation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a huge kick out of this. From The Daily Mail: The instruction booklet was a little worse for wear. But then it does date back to 1577. That didn&#8217;t stop a group of gardening enthusiasts using it to recreate an Elizabethan watering contraption known as the &#8220;Great Squirt&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/the-great-squirt\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-enactments-and-re-creations","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}