{"id":226,"date":"2013-03-12T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?p=226"},"modified":"2013-03-12T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:02:52","slug":"riddles-for-a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/riddles-for-a-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Riddles for a Rainy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has sprung here at the library, and that means lots of grey skies and damp walks. As a bright spot, though, I stumbled upon an educational riddle book. It has a unique lay out, with a full-page illustration and clue one one leaf, and the answer, complete with historical and geographical information on the other.<\/p>\n<p>You might be familiar with these word and picture puzzles, known as rebus. A\u00a0<em>rebus<\/em>\u00a0is an allusional device that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words, and was a popular pastime in the\u00a018th century and on into the 19th century.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebus#cite_note-4\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>With that quick history lesson, here are some of the picture riddles. Let&#8217;s see if you&#8217;re as smart as a child from 1811 England (mouse-over for answers):<\/p>\n<p>The Seat of Learning<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-228\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal;\" title=\"Ox, fording a river = Oxford\" alt=\"Oxford\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/oxford-190x300.png\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Seaport in Wales<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-229\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal;\" title=\"Swan + Sea = Swansea\" alt=\"Swansea\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/swansea-197x300.png\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Place in Lincolnshire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/horncastle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-227  alignnone\" title=\"Horn + Castle = Horncastle\" alt=\"Horncastle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/03\/horncastle-186x300.png\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How did you do? Three for three?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has sprung here at the library, and that means lots of grey skies and damp walks. As a bright spot, though, I stumbled upon an educational riddle book. It has a unique lay out, with a full-page illustration and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/riddles-for-a-rainy-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}