{"id":6643,"date":"2026-02-23T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=6643"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:52:13","slug":"ripe-and-bearded-barley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=6643","title":{"rendered":"Ripe and Bearded Barley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff used to sing this on our evenings when we leaned more into the drinking songs.\u00a0 More recently, Michael has taken up this lovely ditty.\u00a0 Some sources date this to the early 19th century, but without source.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A version found in \u201cFolk-Songs of the Upper Thames, with an essay on folk-song activity in the upper Thames neighbourhood.\u201d Alfred Williams. London: Duckworth &amp; Co. 1923<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6644\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-662x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-768x1189.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-992x1536.jpg 992w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-1323x2048.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-624x966.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ripe-and-Bearded-Barley-scaled.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff used to sing this on our evenings when we leaned more into the drinking songs.\u00a0 More recently, Michael has taken up this lovely ditty.\u00a0 Some sources date this to the early 19th century, but without source. Jos. Morneault &nbsp; A version found in \u201cFolk-Songs of the Upper Thames, with an essay on folk-song activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6643\/revisions\/6645"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}