{"id":10474,"date":"2018-02-15T19:07:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T00:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2018-02-15T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T00:07:48","slug":"let-bookworms-gnaw-his-entrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10474","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let bookworms gnaw his entrails&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are you troubled by &#8220;friends&#8221;<\/strong> who borrow your books and never return them? Or return them soiled and dog-eared? <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> reports on a book that describes the drastic measures medieval librarians employed &#8212; placing curses on the heads of book thieves and mutilators.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThese curses were the only things that protected the books,\u201d says Marc Drogin, author of <em>Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses<\/em>. \u201cLuckily, it was in a time where people believed in them. If you ripped out a page, you were going to die in agony. You didn\u2019t want to take the chance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/protect-your-library-the-medieval-way-with-horrifying-book-curses?utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_medium=atlas-page\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you troubled by &#8220;friends&#8221; who borrow your books and never return them? Or return them soiled and dog-eared? Atlas Obscura reports on a book that describes the drastic measures medieval librarians employed &#8212; placing curses on the heads of book thieves and mutilators. \u201cThese curses were the only things that protected the books,\u201d says &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10474\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Let bookworms gnaw his entrails&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[174,244,1748,1822],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-uncategorized","tag-anathema","tag-atlas-obscura","tag-marc-drogin","tag-medieval-books"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}