{"id":51596,"date":"2016-11-07T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=51596"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T14:37:38","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Is the Unicorn Ready to Rumble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/led-unicorn-lamp?source=blog_uk_110716\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/42429_unicornlight.jpg\" alt=\"42429_unicornlight\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-36621030\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland getting prickly as a thistle<\/a>\u00a0about staying in the UK post-Brexit, you might think such strife is a recent phenomenon. Nae, laddy\u2014the roots of unrest between England and Scotland run deep and are reflected in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britroyals.com\/arms.htm\" target=\"_blank\">British royal coat-of-arms<\/a> itself. The lion and the unicorn therein might look like they\u2019re happily cooperating to support the heraldic shield in the center, but folklore has it that the two beasts aren\u2019t exactly besties. The unicorn hails from the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century Scottish coat-of-arms, while the lion traditionally stands for England. And when James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603, the two iconic animals were forced into coat-of-arms cooperation. But the beef between the two goes back over 5,000 years to ancient Babylonian mythology, where the unicorn represented spring and the lion stood for summer. Each year, the two fought for supremacy\u2014and each year the lion eventually won. A popular English nursery rhyme reflects this ongoing animosity, as well as historic wars between England and Scotland:<\/p>\n<p><em>The lion and the unicorn<br \/>\nWere fighting for the crown;<br \/>\nThe lion beat the unicorn<br \/>\nAll round about the town.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the time being at least, these age-old rivals continue to coexist, though the Scottish unicorn may be asking himself <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oGIFublvDes\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cshould I stay or should I go?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/led-unicorn-lamp?source=blog_uk_110716\" target=\"_blank\">LED Unicorn Lamp<\/a> | $78<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With\u00a0Scotland getting prickly as a thistle\u00a0about staying in the UK post-Brexit, you might think such strife is a recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":51598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[2272,1920,813,1406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596"}],"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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51975,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51596\/revisions\/51975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}