{"id":31,"date":"2010-10-12T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rring.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-12-13T20:47:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:47:57","slug":"what-fools-these-mortals-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/2010\/10\/12\/what-fools-these-mortals-be\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fools These Mortals Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted by Sally Dickinson, Special Collections Librarian, Watkinson Library]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck2-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck2-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today in the Watkinson we were filling an interlibrary loan request and were having trouble finding the requested cartoon.\u00a0 Henry Arneth was looking at the German version of the weekly Puck but coming up empty-handed.\u00a0 I suggested looking in the American edition, which was easier to navigate.\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 We found it!\u00a0 What could be more timely considering the upcoming elections, than this picture of senatorial shenanigans we discovered?<\/p>\n<p>Puck was a satirical rag published in New York in the 1880\u2019s.\u00a0 You could buy it on the street corner for 10 cents every Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>I also got a kick out of the cover of the Jan. 2, 1889 issue:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/files\/2010\/10\/Puck1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted by Sally Dickinson, Special Collections Librarian, Watkinson Library] Today in the Watkinson we were filling an interlibrary loan request and were having trouble finding the requested cartoon.\u00a0 Henry Arneth was looking at the German version of the weekly Puck but coming up empty-handed.\u00a0 I suggested looking in the American edition, which was easier to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}