{"id":660,"date":"2007-06-02T08:50:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-10-11T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T05:43:16","slug":"camelot-tis-a-silly-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/camelot-tis-a-silly-place","title":{"rendered":"Camelot &#8211; &#8216;Tis a Silly Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/castle.jpg\" alt=\"castle\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/castle.jpg 800w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/castle-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/castle-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/castle-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My boys and I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail a few days ago and that got me thinking about Arthurian novels. Here are a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441627404\/nickslists-20\">The Once and Future King<\/a> by T.H. White &#8211; A terrific book, but unfortunately I can&#8217;t get the Disney movie <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Sword in the Stone<\/span> out of my head when I read the first part.<\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060548258\/nickslists-20\">The Crystal Cave<\/a>, <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060548266\/nickslists-20\">The Hollow Hills<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060548274\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Last Enchantment<\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060548282\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Wicked Day<\/span><\/a> by Mary Stewart &#8211; This was my first introduction to the Arthurian saga back when I was in high school. I loved it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451528166\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Le Morte D&#8217;Arthur<\/span><\/a> by Sir Thomas Malory &#8211; I like this particular prose version by Keith Baines<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345277600\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/span><\/a> translated by J.R.R. Tolkien &#8211; One of Tolkien&#8217;s many contributions to medieval studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here are a few I haven&#8217;t read but that I want to someday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140422536\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Idylls of the King<\/span><\/a> &#8211; Alfred, Lord Tennyson<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140445218\/nickslists-20\">Arthurian Romances<\/a> &#8211; Chretien de Troyes<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140445218\/nickslists-20\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140443614\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Parzival<\/span><\/a> by Wolfram Von Eschenbach<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140442200\/nickslists-20\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Quest of the Holy Grail<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a bonus: Lego Monty Python!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIXByCAIzos?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boys and I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail a few days ago and that got me thinking about Arthurian novels. Here are a few of my favorites: The Once and Future King by T.H. White &#8211; A terrific book, but unfortunately I can&#8217;t get the Disney movie The Sword in the Stone out of my head when I read the first part. The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment, and The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart &#8211; This was my first introduction to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[36,206,208,30,204,207,205],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-book-recommendations","tag-camelot","tag-holy-grail","tag-tolkien","tag-king-arthur","tag-mary-stewart","tag-monty-python","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/castle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-aE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}