{"id":2983,"date":"2013-04-22T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2013-04-21T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T14:33:56","slug":"in-defense-of-king-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of King John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am taking a break from romance,\u00c2\u00a0 Regency fun and give aways of all kinds to defend King John. As you probably know, I am obsessed with the early Plantagenets. I&#8217;ve always thought of John as Eleanor&#8217;s true heir. He was not glamorous the way Richard was. He did not always win as Henry II did. But he was a survivor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2987 lazyload\" alt=\"210px-John_of_England_(John_Lackland)\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"346\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2-182x300.jpg 182w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 210px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 210\/346;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2987\" alt=\"210px-John_of_England_(John_Lackland)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/210px-John_of_England_John_Lackland2-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So on the fabulous English Historical Fiction Authors website, I stand up for this much maligned king.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to John&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/in-defense-of-king-john.html\">In Defense of King John<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am taking a break from romance,\u00c2\u00a0 Regency fun and give aways of all kinds to defend King John. As you probably know, I am obsessed with the early Plantagenets. I&#8217;ve always thought of John as Eleanor&#8217;s true heir. He was not glamorous the way Richard was. He did not always win as Henry &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=2983\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Defense of King John<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}