{"id":33217,"date":"2014-10-28T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=33217"},"modified":"2014-10-29T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:23:57","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-unicorns-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-unicorns-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Are unicorns beautiful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/24716_ElwoodBank-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-33224 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/24716_ElwoodBank-3-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Elwood the Rainbow Unicorn Bank | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/24716_ElwoodBank-3-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/24716_ElwoodBank-3-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/24716_ElwoodBank-3-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/23847_UnicornMug.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Not according to an eye witness account. Specifically, the account of Marco Polo, who discovered actual, living unicorns during his world travels. He was less than impressed. It turns out that unicorns did indeed have a single horn jutting from their foreheads, but in general were, \u201cugly brutes to look at.\u201d He described them as, \u201cscarcely smaller than elephants. They have the hair of a buffalo and feet like an elephant&#8217;s\u2026 They have a head like a wild boar&#8217;s.\u201d Popular understanding at the time suggested that unicorns would be creatures of such purity that they could be tamed only by the fairest virgin damsels. Polo, however, found that, \u201cthey spend their time by preference wallowing in mud and slime.\u201d Scarcely the stuff that dreams are made of. Perhaps that\u2019s the reason why they were renamed. Today you can find unicorns in almost any zoo, but they have been re-branded as \u201crhinoceros.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/elwood-the-rainbow-unicorn-bank?source=blog\">Elwood the Rainbow Unicorn\u00a0Bank, $45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe not on the outside&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":33238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}