{"id":129527,"date":"2016-01-21T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/fart-jokes-and-professional-farting-are-nothing-new.html"},"modified":"2016-02-09T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:23:24","slug":"fart-jokes-and-professional-farting-are-nothing-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/fart-jokes-and-professional-farting-are-nothing-new.html","title":{"rendered":"Fart jokes &#8212; and professional farting &#8212; are nothing new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently in the Dark Ages, before cable and streaming video, someone who could fart on cue, or even fart musically, was a heck of a lot more entertaining than yet one more verse of &quot;Greensleeves.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-true-story-of-roland-the-farter-and-how-the-internet-killed-professional-flatulence'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/E0BGRZSSAc7iEs-kePGlwWE3BOKuknbMjcH3SSJsYLikIJL68VGLM0bYYf1RnY8w5xkKpj3e03WHp4dUl9Gn8DGFmCcVPVOagnmfnPw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-true-story-of-roland-the-farter-and-how-the-internet-killed-professional-flatulence'>The True Story of Roland the Farter, and How the Internet Killed Professional Flatulence<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nRoland, court minstrel to 12th century English king Henry II, probably had many talents.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/eaeTcqmv1pJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently in the Dark Ages, before cable and streaming video, someone who could fart on cue, or even fart musically, was a heck of a lot more entertaining than yet one more verse of &quot;Greensleeves.&quot; The True Story of Roland the Farter, and How the Internet Killed Professional Flatulence Roland, court minstrel to 12th century &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/21\/fart-jokes-and-professional-farting-are-nothing-new.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fart jokes &#8212; and professional farting &#8212; are nothing new&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,30,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-jokes","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49262,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/fun-fart-facts.html","url_meta":{"origin":129527,"position":0},"title":"Fun Fart Facts","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jan-15 10:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The linguistic one is what I find the most interesting. 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