{"id":13127,"date":"2005-10-25T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/shaft-in-chaucerian-english\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T22:49:00","slug":"shaft-in-chaucerian-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/shaft-in-chaucerian-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaft In Chaucerian English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>geoff_chaucer has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/geoff_chaucer\/7400.html\" target=\"_blank\">translation of the lyrics of <i>Shaft<\/i> into Chaucerian English<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wha be tha blake prevy lawe<br \/>That bene wantoun too alle tha feres?<br \/>SHAFT!<br \/>Ya damne righte!<\/p>\n<p>Wha be tha carl tha riske is hals wolt<br \/>Fro is allye leve?<br \/>SHAFT!<br \/>Konne ye?<\/p>\n<p>Wha be tha carl wha ne wolden flee<br \/>Whan peril bene all aboughte?<br \/>SHAFT!<br \/>Verray!<\/p>\n<p>Alle clepe tha carl ane badde mooder-<br \/>SOFTE!<br \/>Speken of Shaft bene I.<br \/>THAN KONNE ALLES WE!<\/p>\n<p>He be a man konne unnethes<br \/>Namo save is mayde konnes im.<br \/>JOHN SHAFT!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/metafilter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/literature\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113028058838267417?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>geoff_chaucer has posted a translation of the lyrics of Shaft into Chaucerian English: Wha be tha blake prevy laweThat bene wantoun too alle tha feres?SHAFT!Ya damne righte! Wha be tha carl tha riske is hals woltFro is allye leve?SHAFT!Konne ye? Wha be tha carl wha ne wolden fleeWhan peril bene all aboughte?SHAFT!Verray! Alle clepe tha &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/25\/shaft-in-chaucerian-english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shaft In Chaucerian English&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}