{"id":915,"date":"2016-02-06T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burnbridle.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2016-02-06T20:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T01:44:55","slug":"whistling-to-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Whistling to the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Joseph C. Martindale&#8217;s 1867 <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lWsU4C4d54wC\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a> of Byberry and Moreland townships:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Samuel Scott was an old Friend who had a very remarkable way of whistling through his nose. On one occasion Jeremy Hibbs clothed himself in a skin, with horns projecting from his head, and placed himself in the bushes by a path where he expected Samuel Ross to pass. After Samuel had gone a few yards, Jeremy came out and hailed him. Samuel gave a whistle through his nose, and exclaimed, &#8220;Get thee behind me, Satan!&#8221; and walked on as unconcernedly as if nothing had happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Samuel Scott died in 1761, so this anecdote likely\u00a0dates to\u00a0the first half of the 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Joseph C. Martindale&#8217;s 1867 history of Byberry and Moreland townships: Samuel Scott was an old Friend who had a very remarkable way of whistling through his nose. On one occasion Jeremy Hibbs clothed himself in a skin, with horns projecting from his head, and placed himself in the bushes by a path where he expected Samuel Ross to pass. &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/?p=915\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44e7y-eL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnbridle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}