{"id":26780,"date":"2020-03-16T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26780"},"modified":"2020-03-16T04:29:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:29:52","slug":"this-is-what-english-actually-sounded-like-500-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26780","title":{"rendered":"This Is What English Actually Sounded Like 500 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"832\" height=\"470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/My_Name_Ys_Parott.png\" alt=\"My Name Ys Parott\" class=\"wp-image-26781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/My_Name_Ys_Parott.png 832w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/My_Name_Ys_Parott-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/My_Name_Ys_Parott-768x434.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s interesting how movies make you believe that if you time travel to the middle ages you\u2019ll understand people perfectly. But is it true? Would you really understand an Englishman from the 16th century? Hear for yourself in the video below where a 500-year-old poem is read aloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/encurious.com\/post\/126332300103\/this-is-what-english-actually-sounded-like-500\n<\/div><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/encurious.com\/post\/126332300103\/this-is-what-english-actually-sounded-like-500\">https:\/\/encurious.com\/post\/126332300103\/this-is-what-english-actually-sounded-like-500<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/encurious.com\/post\/126332300103\/this-is-what-english-actually-sounded-like-500\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s interesting how movies make you believe that if you time travel to the middle ages you\u2019ll understand people perfectly. But is it true? Would you really understand an Englishman from the 16th century? Hear for yourself in the video below where a 500-year-old poem is read aloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26782,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780\/revisions\/26782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}