{"id":15701,"date":"2023-05-17T15:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:39:31","slug":"whats-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=15701","title":{"rendered":"What is a weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;So asks the Dowager Countess in an early episode of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Downton_Abbey\" target=\"_blank\">Downton Abbey<\/a><\/em>. Any idea I may have had that it was only my own rather idiosyncratic family that was so amused at the time &#8211; not only by the question itself but by Maggie Smith\u2019s  impeccable deadpan delivery &#8211; that it remains to this day an oft used <em>gefl\u00fcgeltes Wort<\/em>, seems to have been misplaced; as demonstrated in the <em>LRB <\/em>clip below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is a weekend? The Dowager Countess asks a good question in Downton Abbey, with Rosemary Hill\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0BatimqGqvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=15118\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"15118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rosemary Hill<\/a> very nicely contextualizes the tentative nearing of the upper classes and the masses &#8211; by way of the pesky <em>upper-middle-classes<\/em> dabbling about in things called &#8216;<em>jobs&#8217;!<\/em> &#8211; at the beginnings of the last century. One may quibble, but there is much for the discerning viewer to take from the oft maligned <em>Downton Abbey<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sim_notes-and-queries_1879-11-29_12_309\/page\/428\/mode\/2up?view=theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"335\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weekend_NotesQueries.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weekend_NotesQueries.jpg 335w, https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Weekend_NotesQueries-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 85vw, 335px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Notes and Queries 1879-11-29: Vol 12 Issue 309<\/em><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the right is the puzzled question out of Staffordshire in <em>Notes and Queries<\/em> to which the convoluted reply is included in the video. (From the <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sim_notes-and-queries_1879-11-29_12_309\/page\/428\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;So asks the Dowager Countess in an early episode of Downton Abbey. Any idea I may have had that it was only my own rather idiosyncratic family that was so amused at the time &#8211; not only by the question itself but by Maggie Smith\u2019s impeccable deadpan delivery &#8211; that it remains to this day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=15701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is a weekend?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[409,153,410,397],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-downton-abbey","tag-london-review-of-books","tag-maggie-smith","tag-rosemary-hill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15749,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/15749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}