{"id":27,"date":"2013-03-17T06:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T06:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2024-12-29T19:01:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T03:01:59","slug":"about-the-manticore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"About the Manticore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-DigitalManticore_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-DigitalManticore_3.png\" alt=\"cropped-DigitalManticore_3.png\" width=\"870\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-DigitalManticore_3.png 870w, https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-DigitalManticore_3-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cropped-DigitalManticore_3-588x148.png 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a>Manticores are mythical beasts that emerged in Persian literature. Manticores have a lion&#8217;s body and a human&#8217;s head and are generally quite fierce. Manticores supposedly ate people, but I just consume information. I was inspired to represent myself with a manticore because of an excellent but now defunct Web comic called <a title=\"Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell\" href=\"http:\/\/dcisgoingtohell.com\/\">Darwin Carmichael is Going to Hell. <\/a>The above image is from <a href=\"http:\/\/dcisgoingtohell.com\/187-manticore-part-ii\/\">this strip<\/a> specifically. I find it amusing and thus have co-opted it as a personal mascot.<\/p>\n<p>If you are here looking for actual information about manticores, as I have learned that some people are, I recommend checking the <a href=\"http:\/\/bestiary.ca\/beasts\/beast177.htm\">Medieval Bestiary<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/johnguycollick.com\/pards-and-manticores-a-medieval-bestiary\/\">John Guy Collick Dot Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manticores are mythical beasts that emerged in Persian literature. Manticores have a lion&#8217;s body and a human&#8217;s head and are generally quite fierce. Manticores supposedly ate people, but I just consume information. I was inspired to represent myself with a manticore because of an excellent but now defunct Web comic called Darwin Carmichael is Going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3ni6N-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}