{"id":2627,"date":"2015-04-02T01:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T01:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2015-04-02T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T02:07:00","slug":"april-fools-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"April Fools Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon one’s neighbor is recognized everywhere.[1]<\/a><\/sup>Some precursors of April Fools’ Day include the Roman festival of\u00c2\u00a0Hilaria<\/a>,[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Holi<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0festival of India,[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0and the MedievalFeast of Fools<\/a>.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In Chaucer’s\u00c2\u00a0Canterbury Tales<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0(1392), the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale<\/a>” is set\u00c2\u00a0Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two<\/i>.[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0Modern scholars believe that there is a copying error in the extant manuscripts and that Chaucer actually wrote,\u00c2\u00a0Syn March was gon<\/i>.[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0Thus the passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May,[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0the anniversary of the engagement of KingRichard II of England<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0Anne of Bohemia<\/a>, which took place in 1381. Readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean “32 March”, i.e. 1 April.[8]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0In Chaucer’s tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.<\/p>\n

In 1508, French poet\u00c2\u00a0Eloy d’Amerval<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0referred to a\u00c2\u00a0poisson d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122avril<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0(April fool, literally “April fish”), a possible reference to the holiday.[9]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0In 1539, Flemish poet Eduard de Dene wrote of a nobleman who sent his servants on foolish errands on 1 April.[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0In 1686,\u00c2\u00a0John Aubrey<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0referred to the holiday as “Fooles holy day”, the first British reference.[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0On 1 April 1698, several people were tricked into going to the\u00c2\u00a0Tower of London<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to “see the Lions washed”.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

So there you have it, I decided not to play any tricks on the misses or the boys or any of you as we all have enough going on, but the day isn’t over so look out!<\/p>\n

Yesterday we settled back into our normal routines with the boys in school and Lori and I at work. I need to call Harry today as he should be arriving from California sometime in the next few days or early next week. This morning I need to run up north, then head west and then down south, so I’ll be just about everywhere except on the eastern plains.<\/p>\n

Rain and snow return this evening and will stick around until Saturday morning. This means no way will we have our first baseball game Friday night. That’s ok with me as it gives us another week to get our team together as we still have a lot to learn.<\/p>\n

Looks like Easter dinner will be at our house which is fine. It’s probably the easiest for everyone, especially the boys who can play outside.<\/p>\n

That’s about it, hopefully this is the last snow storm of the year. Last year we had snow in early May though so you never know.<\/p>\n

Hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The custom of setting aside a day for the playing of harmless pranks upon one’s neighbor is recognized everywhere.[1]Some precursors of April Fools’ Day include the Roman festival of\u00c2\u00a0Hilaria,[2]\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Holi\u00c2\u00a0festival of India,[3]\u00c2\u00a0and the MedievalFeast of Fools.[4] In Chaucer’s\u00c2\u00a0Canterbury Tales\u00c2\u00a0(1392), the “Nun’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2011familymakeover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}