{"id":60,"date":"2024-01-06T12:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:56:37","slug":"i-hereby-swear-to-hate-henry-symeonis-whoever-that-is-lowering-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/06\/i-hereby-swear-to-hate-henry-symeonis-whoever-that-is-lowering-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Hereby Swear to Hate Henry Symeonis, Whoever That Is.\u201d &#8211; Lowering The Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cfor more than 500 years, anyone who wanted a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to take an oath promising they would never \u201cagree to the reconciliation of Henry Symeonis\u201d (this was in Latin, so quod numquam consencient in reconciliationem Henrici Symeonis). The requirement was added to the university statutes in 1264, and wasn\u2019t removed until 1827\u2014more than half a millennium later. The good part is that for most of that enormous span of time, nobody had any idea who Henry Symeonis actually was or what he might have done\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lowering-the-bar wp-block-embed-lowering-the-bar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1TA8eS3L3R\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loweringthebar.net\/2024\/01\/i-hereby-swear-to-hate-henry-symeonis.html\">&#8220;I Hereby Swear to Hate Henry Symeonis, Whoever That Is.&#8221;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;&#8220;I Hereby Swear to Hate Henry Symeonis, Whoever That Is.&#8221;&#8221; &#8212; Lowering the Bar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loweringthebar.net\/2024\/01\/i-hereby-swear-to-hate-henry-symeonis.html\/embed#?secret=Oqf3eTZSZQ#?secret=1TA8eS3L3R\" data-secret=\"1TA8eS3L3R\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cfor more than 500 years, anyone who wanted a Master of Arts degree from Oxford had to take an oath promising they would never \u201cagree to the reconciliation of Henry Symeonis\u201d (this was in Latin, so quod numquam consencient in reconciliationem Henrici Symeonis). The requirement was added to the university statutes in 1264, and wasn\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}