{"id":273,"date":"2016-10-03T09:45:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/?p=273"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:28:48","slug":"sketch-of-the-day-sunday-scribble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2016\/10\/sketch-of-the-day-sunday-scribble\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the day: Sunday scribble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(click on image to see larger)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spqrblues_20161002_sunday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spqrblues_20161002_sunday-730x1024.png\" alt=\"spqrblues_20161002_sunday\" width=\"500\" height=\"701\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spqrblues_20161002_sunday-730x1024.png 730w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spqrblues_20161002_sunday-214x300.png 214w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spqrblues_20161002_sunday-768x1077.png 768w, http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/spqrblues_20161002_sunday.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A random Egyptian night, some years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s evidence from the wear and scuffing on mummies (of ordinary Graeco-Roman-Egyptian folks) that they were kept upright in or near the home, or else were brought out and set up for special occasions, until eventually being buried, maybe after a generation or two.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q&#038;A from LJ:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>esmerelda_ogg:<\/strong> Are those Felix&#8217;s little brothers or sisters next to Father? (We&#8217;re lucky. We can forget how many children didn&#8217;t grow up back then.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s only mentioned in passing here and there, but Felix had an older brother who died young (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/IV\/comic\/chapter-ii-84\/\">Rufus<\/a>) and a younger brother (name not mentioned) <A HREF=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/IV\/comic\/chapter-ii-87\/\">who died of the same illness as his parents<\/A>. And, given the child and infant mortality rates, there are likely to have been more siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Making Felix technically the middle child but raised as the older brother. That also isn&#8217;t mentioned specifically, but I had it in mind when Domitian <A HREF=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/IV\/comic\/chapter-ii-55\/\">tries to be all simpatico with Felix<\/A> about both of them being oppressed younger brothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click on image to see larger) A random Egyptian night, some years ago&#8230; There&#8217;s evidence from the wear and scuffing on mummies (of ordinary Graeco-Roman-Egyptian folks) that they were kept upright in or near the home, or else were brought[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/2016\/10\/sketch-of-the-day-sunday-scribble\/\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}