{"id":1367,"date":"2008-06-01T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2008-06-11T22:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T03:29:36","slug":"sumer-is-icumen-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"Sumer Is Icumen In, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the onset of summer makes you feel giddy or even a little crazy, the <b>June Random Thread<\/b> offers you a chance to join along in this fine old Middle English song:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSvmer is icumen in,<br \/>\nLhude sing cuccu!<br \/>\nGrowe\u00c3\u00be sed and blowe\u00c3\u00be med<br \/>\nAnd spring\u00c3\u00be \u00c3\u00bee wde nu,<br \/>\nSing cuccu!<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCuccu, cuccu, wel singes \u00c3\u00beu, cuccu;<br \/>\nNe swik \u00c3\u00beu nauer nu.<br \/>\nSing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.<br \/>\nSing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In modern English: &#8220;Summer has come in \/ Loudly sing, Cuckoo! \/ The seed grows and the meadow blooms \/ And the wood springs anew, \/ Sing, Cuckoo!<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Cuckoo, cuckoo, well you sing, cuckoo; \/ Don&#8217;t you ever stop now, \/ Sing cuckoo now. \/ Sing, Cuckoo. \/ Sing Cuckoo. Sing cuckoo now!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the onset of summer makes you feel giddy or even a little crazy, the June Random Thread offers you a chance to join along in this fine old Middle English song: Svmer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Growe\u00c3\u00be sed and blowe\u00c3\u00be med And spring\u00c3\u00be \u00c3\u00bee wde nu, Sing cuccu! &#8230; Cuccu, cuccu, wel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=1367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sumer Is Icumen In, Part 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}