{"id":168,"date":"2015-02-26T00:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:42:55","slug":"the-lion-and-the-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/the-lion-and-the-unicorn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion and the Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The traditional nursery rhyme, &#8220;The Lion and the Unicorn&#8221; animates the legendary animosity between the two animals.  Developing from Great Britain&#8217;s heraldic imagery, the story within this rhyme is firmly tied to political relations within the country.  Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940), a British children&#8217;s book illustrator, created these recognizable images of the dueling pair. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book L. Leslie Brooke (illustrator) New York: Clarion Books, 1992 Special Collections, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover-100x132.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover-150x198.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover-200x264.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover-300x396.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/olio00000003499-Brooke-RingORoses-cover-450x593.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ring O&#8217; Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book<\/em><br>L. Leslie Brooke (illustrator)<br>New York: Clarion Books, 1992<br>Special Collections, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional nursery rhyme, &#8220;The Lion and the Unicorn&#8221; animates the legendary animosity between the two animals. Developing from Great Britain&#8217;s heraldic imagery, the story within this rhyme is firmly tied to political relations within the country. Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940), a British children&#8217;s book illustrator, created these recognizable images of the dueling pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/unicornfound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}