{"id":1162,"date":"2013-03-22T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:24:12","slug":"spring-and-string-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Spring and string"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The snowdrops have been blooming for a couple weeks, and I saw the first tips of crocus on Wednesday, fittingly. Now if it would just stop snowing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo-1024x872.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/photo.jpg 1139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trust.org\/alertnet\/news\/pre-viking-tunic-found-by-glacier-as-warming-aids-archaeology\">article yesterday<\/a> talks about a well-preserved tunic that has melted out of a glacier in Norway: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pre-Viking woollen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology, scientists said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The greenish-brown, loose-fitting outer clothing &#8211; suitable for a person up to about 176 cms (5 ft 9 inches) tall &#8211; was found 2,000 metres (6,560 ft) above sea level on what may have been a Roman-era trade route in south Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon dating showed it was made around 300 AD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The museum holding the tunic has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oppland.no\/Fag-og-tjenester\/Kulturarv\/Aktuelt-kulturvern\/Norges-eldste-klesplagg\/Kjortel-fra-Lendbreen\/\">some photos<\/a>, including a close-up of the diamond twill fabric. And look at those armscyes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snowdrops have been blooming for a couple weeks, and I saw the first tips of crocus on Wednesday, fittingly. Now if it would just stop snowing&#8230; An article yesterday talks about a well-preserved tunic that has melted out of a glacier in Norway: A pre-Viking woollen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,98,87,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-must-be-spring","category-textiles","category-vikings","category-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}