{"id":160,"date":"2017-02-22T03:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=160"},"modified":"2017-02-22T03:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:31:33","slug":"chastity-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/epic-romance\/chastity-and-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chastity and Flowers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Book 3 Canto 11, stanza 6 Britomart is described as &#8220;the flowre of chastity&#8221; (3.11.6.47). This\u00a0connection between flowers and chastity was also something I noted in the reading for Monday. It came up a few times in that reading and seems to be a repeated idea throughout the text. I am wondering why chastity is connected so much with flowers, as flowers seem to me to be usually associated with sexuality? Just something that seems odd to me and I am curious what others think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Book 3 Canto 11, stanza 6 Britomart is described as &#8220;the flowre of chastity&#8221; (3.11.6.47). This\u00a0connection between flowers and chastity was also something I noted in the reading for Monday. It came up a few times in that reading and seems to be a repeated idea throughout the text. I am wondering why chastity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}