{"id":357,"date":"2011-08-06T16:48:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-08-06T16:48:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T13:48:55","slug":"mac-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2011\/08\/06\/mac-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabble of Mac Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wilson, writing to Sir Robert Cecil in March 1604 from Spain, describes the Irishmen in Spain (spelling and punctuation modernised):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Besides this Mac Williams here is a great sort of other Macs and macaques as Mac Sweeny, Mac Shannon (or &#8216;Mac a shame on him&#8217;), Maurice Mac-I-know-not-who, Mac an Earl, Mac a devil, &amp; such a rabble of Mac Rebels as never [a] Christian king had, that a man cannot stir in any corner but he shalbe confronted with some of them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Early Modern letters I work on, it&#8217;s quite rare to find passionate outbursts of this kind, so this was a nice change from the straightforward newsspeak that&#8217;s the norm. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wilson, writing to Sir Robert Cecil in March 1604 from Spain, describes the Irishmen in Spain (spelling and punctuation modernised): &#8220;Besides this Mac Williams here is a great sort of other Macs and macaques as Mac Sweeny, Mac Shannon (or &#8216;Mac a shame on him&#8217;), Maurice Mac-I-know-not-who, Mac an Earl, Mac a devil, &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[22,33,36,38,41],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","category-phd","tag-cool-stuff","tag-emode","tag-language","tag-letters","tag-manuscripts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}