{"id":520270,"date":"2018-09-12T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=24ed81f01539d133ac2b5d3a60198f94"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:00:15","slug":"science-fiction-was-around-in-medieval-times-heres-what-it-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=520270","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction was around in medieval times &ndash; here&#8217;s what it looked like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green &#8220;children of Woolpit&#8221;, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and were reported to have spoken a language no one could understand. There&#8217;s also the story of Eilmer the 11th-century monk, who constructed a pair of wings and flew from the top of Malmesbury Abbey. And there&#8217;s the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th-century book written in an unknowable script, full of illustrations of otherworldly plants and surreal landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green &#8220;children of Woolpit&#8221;, who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and were reported to have spoken a language no one could&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520271,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520270\/revisions\/520271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}