{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "William Marshall, greatest knight in English history. So when he was a kid his dad was defending a castle in a civil war, and...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/167461252849/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/75101381560/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote>\n<p>William Marshal, greatest knight in English history. So when he was a kid his dad was defending a castle in a civil war, and young William was being held as a hostage. If the father would not surrender, it was threatened that William be killed - either by hanging or as the payload of a trebuchet - which is after all the point of hostages.</p>\n<p>His father taunted them to do it, proclaiming \u201cI still have the hammer and the anvil with which to forge still more and better sons!\u201d History does not <i>specifically</i> record that he was grabbing his junk as he said this, but one can assume.</p>\n</blockquote>"}