{"id":1961,"date":"2015-04-20T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:19:21","slug":"yoda-in-a-medieval-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/04\/20\/yoda-in-a-medieval-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoda in a medieval manuscript!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/librarian-discovers-yoda-medieval-manuscript-prove-218238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1960\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/04\/yoda.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"yoda\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/04\/yoda.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/04\/yoda-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/04\/yoda-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/04\/yoda-624x389.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>British Library curator Julian Harrison found an illustration of a creature who is clearly Yoda in a medieval French manuscript. According to the Onion&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/\">A.V. Club<\/a>, Harrison &#8220;says it\u2019s obviously not Yoda, just a thing that looks like Yoda, but we think he\u2019s just covering up for the fact that Yoda\u2019s existence in medieval France throws everything we know about history into disarray.&#8221; Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/04\/02\/tutt-librarian-steve-lawson-profiled-in-trade-magazine\/\">Steve Lawson<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Library curator Julian Harrison found an illustration of a creature who is clearly Yoda in a medieval French manuscript. According to the Onion&#8217;s A.V. Club, Harrison &#8220;says it\u2019s obviously not Yoda, just a thing that looks like Yoda, but we think he\u2019s just covering up for the fact that Yoda\u2019s existence in medieval France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-vD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}