{"id":2442,"date":"2013-01-01T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2013-01-01T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T15:53:32","slug":"what-the-hell-is-a-bouncy-druid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/what-the-hell-is-a-bouncy-druid\/","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is a bouncy druid&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s hard to imagine a druid as being bouncy, well, just consider some of the activities they\u2019re known for, (here described by Pliny the Elder) \u201cA [druid] priest arrayed in white vestments climbs the tree and, with a golden sickle, cuts down the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak. Then finally they kill the victims&#8230;\u201d Mr Elder didn\u2019t mention at any point during the ritual that the druids were particularly bouncy at all. Though perhaps a certain amount of bouciness would occur after lighting the blue touch paper of a wicker man, Cicero makes no reference to them bouncing, nor does Lucan, Suetonius or Caesar.<\/p>\n<p>So why you may ask would I suddenly be wondering how bouncy a druid would be, and whether a certain amount of bounce would be part of their daily ritual. Well, in August we went to see Mitch Benn perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/what-the-hell-is-a-bouncy-druid\/mb_ticket\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2441\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2441\" alt=\"I've got a golden...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mb_ticket.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mb_ticket.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mb_ticket-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the Reduced Circumstances show there was a song about bouncy druids, it was one of those songs that get inside your head and refuses to leave \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wIb3HJ42-Wk\" height=\"394\" width=\"700\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A week or so after the show and I was playing around with a bit of typography and getting nowhere fast, still the druids bounced through my brain and I decided it was time to pry them lose. So, I set about creating a bouncy druid bit of typography. Something however was missing, the design needed something, it needed a bouncy druid or two. Luckily, I had the perfect reference images, we&#8217;d spent the week in Fife following the show and visited a touristy place with a huge bouncy pillow &#8216;thing&#8217; which our neice decided to try out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/what-the-hell-is-a-bouncy-druid\/bounce_compile_700\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2440\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2440\" alt=\"Composit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bounce_compile_700.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bounce_compile_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bounce_compile_700-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, that was my reference material sorted, the rest was easy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/what-the-hell-is-a-bouncy-druid\/druids\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2444\" alt=\"druids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/druids.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/druids.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/druids-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/druids-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the design was finished I stuck it online, and tweeted a copy to Mitch Benn who suggested using it as a design for a t-shirt. Well, I couldn&#8217;t resist could I \ud83d\ude09 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.co.uk\/bouncy_bouncy_druids_dark_t_shirt-235165049095053094\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a druid as being bouncy, well, just consider some of the activities they\u2019re known for, (here described by Pliny the Elder) \u201cA [druid] priest arrayed in white vestments climbs the tree and, with a golden sickle, cuts down the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak. Then finally they kill the victims&#8230;\u201d Mr Elder didn\u2019t mention at any point during the ritual that the druids were particularly bouncy at all. Though perhaps a certain amount of bouciness would occur after lighting the blue touch paper&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[431,430,432],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","category-misc","tag-druid","tag-mitch-benn","tag-t-shirt"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}