{"id":636,"date":"2006-03-20T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2006-03-20T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T18:23:00","slug":"636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go thou <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogs.friendster.com\/my_blog\/\">here<\/a> and proffitt of it. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/\">Language Hat<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> Ye blog hath moved hym <a href=\"http:\/\/houseoffame.blogspot.com\/\">herein<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog Go thou here and proffitt of it. (Via Language Hat.) 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