{"id":2649,"date":"2021-05-26T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2021-11-25T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T10:16:36","slug":"ride-a-cock-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/ride-a-cock-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride a cock horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>to Banbury Cross.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,<br>To see a fine lady upon a white horse;<\/em><br><em>Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,<br>And she shall have music wherever she goes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The origins of this rhyme are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ride_a_cock_horse_to_Banbury_Cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uncertain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banbury used to have several crosses: the High Cross, the Bread Cross and the White Cross until they offended puritan sensibilities and were destroyed around 1600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The present cross dates from 1859 to commemorate the wedding of Victoria, the Princess Royal , to Frederick of Prussia whose coat of arms were blocked out during World War 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So removing and defacing statues by those gifted with moral certainty is nothing new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,To see a fine lady upon a white horse;Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,And she shall have music wherever she goes. The origins of this rhyme are uncertain. Banbury used to have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/ride-a-cock-horse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}