{"id":15,"date":"2006-11-26T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lib-wordpress.iowa.uiowa.edu\/dls\/2006\/11\/26\/being-muttonable\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:24:08","slug":"being-muttonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2006\/11\/26\/being-muttonable\/","title":{"rendered":"Being muttonable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/leighhunt\/id\/51\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-888 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2006\/11\/dickens1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>While social gatherings with friends and family can be the most enjoyable part of the holiday<em><\/em> season, accepting too many invitations can result in exhausting treks through perilous weather to a seemingly endless round of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year&#8217;s parties. However, refusing invitations without offending your would-be host can be tricky, which is why we&#8217;re happy to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/leighhunt\/id\/51\" target=\"_blank\">this example<\/a> from the UI Libraries&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/scua\/bai\/leigh%20hunt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Leigh Hunt manuscript collection<\/a>. As Charles Dickens demonstrates in this 1854 letter to essayist, poet, editor, and political activist Hunt, one strategy for softening the blow is to counter with an invitation of your own:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. I <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> come and take tea with you &#8212; and I&#8217;ll tell you why. If I do, I foresee that that leg of mutton which has never come off, will walk again into the misty future, like a vagrant trotter as it has proved itself to be. Therefore I am non-producible except on this my dunghill. Name your day&#8230; I am muttonable at half-past five&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additional digitized correspondence from Hunt&#8217;s other friends such as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and William Thackeray will soon be forthcoming, thanks to the efforts of library science\/book arts student and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/sc\/about\/olsonfellowship\" target=\"_blank\">Olson Fellow<\/a> Nana Diederichs.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Jen Wolfe<br \/>\nMetadata Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While social gatherings with friends and family can be the most enjoyable part of the holiday season, accepting too many invitations can result in exhausting treks through perilous weather to a seemingly endless round of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year&#8217;s parties. However, refusing invitations without offending your would-be host can be tricky, which is why<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2006\/11\/26\/being-muttonable\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Being muttonable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}