{"id":11687,"date":"2007-07-17T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T06:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/17\/would-you-have-been-pulling-the-cart-or-on-it.html"},"modified":"2007-07-17T23:14:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T06:14:48","slug":"would_you_have_been_pulli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/would_you_have_been_pulli.html","title":{"rendered":"Would you have been pulling the cart, or on it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shamus Young (of DM of the Rings fame) asks, “Would you have survived in the Middle Ages<\/a>“?  Assume no particular accidents (or standard plagues) of the day — would your personal health have done you in?<\/p>\n

Scarlet fever<\/a>, baby.  As a child.  I’d probably have been on the cart.<\/p>\n

Aside from that — hmmm.  Inguinal hernias<\/a> — two of them, in fact.  Probably would have done me in eventually, too (rather than simply have meant that, post-surgeries, I learned folk dancing with the girls in third grade rather than kick ball with the boys).<\/p>\n

And aside from that — well, actually, darned healthy.  I’m assuming my near-sightedness wouldn’t have overly affected my ability to farm, shovel filth, or any of a dozen other Medieval occupations out there (archery would have been right out, but that’s about it).<\/p>\n

(“Bring out your dead!<\/a>“)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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