{"id":222,"date":"2011-04-01T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/04\/a-brief-history-of-april-fools-day\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:58","slug":"a-brief-history-of-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/04\/a-brief-history-of-april-fools-day.html","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of April Fool&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>An event shrouded in the mists of time.<\/p>\n<p>So, you must be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>One history:<\/p>\n<p>And another:<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-3919139932519670081?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event shrouded in the mists of time. 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