{"id":6570,"date":"2004-08-05T13:23:32","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/05\/wanted-jester\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T18:23:32","slug":"wanted-jester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/wanted-jester\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Jester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\"> <span class=\"articles\">LONDON, England (AP) &#8212; English Heritage, guardian of various historic sites in Britain, is advertising for someone to be the nation&#8217;s first court jester since 1649.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">An ad appearing in Thursday&#8217;s editions of The Times laid out the qualifications: &quot;Must be mirthful and prepared to work summer weekends in 2005. Must have own outfit (with bells). Bladder on stick provided if required.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Auditions will be held Saturday at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, and the winner will have to negotiate a salary, English Heritage said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The court jester&#8217;s position died along with King Charles I, who was executed by Oliver Cromwell&#8217;s supporters in 1649. The monarchy was restored 11 years later, but the position of jester did not return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;It is about time we had a jester again,&quot; said Tracy Borman, the agency&#8217;s director of education, events and outreach.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/04\/britain.jester.ap\/\">Full Story<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">\nIt also said &quot;<br \/>\nJester&#8217;s qualifications include merriness and owning an outfit with bells.&quot; Well one out of two isn&#8217;t bad, and for the record it is the outfit with bells I am lacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Jamie from <a href=\"http:\/\/adlimina.blogspot.com\/\">Ad Limina Apostolorum<\/a> sent me that link along with one for another blogging Christian jester with geek tendencies <a href=\"http:\/\/thecourtjester.blogspot.com\/\">The Court Jester<\/a>. I like this guy&#8217;s profile where under About Me it says &quot;Luke, I am your father&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, England (AP) &#8212; English Heritage, guardian of various historic sites in Britain, is advertising for someone to be the nation&#8217;s first court jester since 1649. An ad appearing in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}