{"id":2947,"date":"2010-06-24T22:09:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2010-06-24T22:09:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T05:09:48","slug":"hypericum-hyperion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/06\/24\/hypericum-hyperion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypericum, Hyperion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;Strange things we remember&#8221;: tonight is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nativity_of_St._John_the_Baptist\">St-Jean-Baptiste-Day<\/a>, aka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midsummer\">Midsummer Eve<\/a>, aka a great huge party with torches and open fires in Montreal where I lived many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom in on a great throng of us  trudging up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Royal\">Mount Royal<\/a>, two &#8220;Anglo chicks&#8221;  mixed in with the locals. The girls have a couple of boys following close (<em>very close<\/em>) behind. <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>What do you think, should we hit them up?<\/em> asks one. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Non, elles sont trop maigre<\/em>, says the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_John%27s_wort\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 4px solid white\" title=\"Hypericum perforatum\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/f\/f4\/Hypericum.flower.750pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Can&#8217;t remember what the hell we did once we reached the top of Mount Royal, but presumably we went back down again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Happy St. John&#8217;s Midsummer Day, fat flowers for all and a blooming summer to be&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;Strange things we remember&#8221;: tonight is St-Jean-Baptiste-Day, aka Midsummer Eve, aka a great huge party with torches and open fires in Montreal where I lived many years ago. Zoom in on a great throng of us trudging up Mount Royal, two &#8220;Anglo chicks&#8221; mixed in with the locals. The girls have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[16185,16187,16186],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-midsummer_eve","tag-montreal","tag-st_jean_baptiste_day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}