{"id":196,"date":"2010-09-16T23:26:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/why-is-there-a-lobster-carved-into-the-notre-dame-cathedral\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T23:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T04:29:35","slug":"why-is-there-a-lobster-carved-into-the-notre-dame-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/why-is-there-a-lobster-carved-into-the-notre-dame-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there a lobster carved into the Notre Dame Cathedral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Google Answers got shut down, this is the next best thing.<\/p>\n<p>I will pay $20 to the first person that can bring me two or three good citations explaining the significance of the lobster that is carved into the Notre Dame Cathedral. It&#8217;s on the outside, to the top right of the exit. It is very prominent. What&#8217;s up with it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timrosenblatt\/4292390918\/\" title=\"Notre Dame exit by tim rosenblatt, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2599\/4292390918_831b15a55a.jpg\" alt=\"Notre Dame exit\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see it in this other shot as well in the top left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.webshots.com\/photo\/1141724570015318076ZZQaYh\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/inlinethumb21.webshots.com\/14420\/1141724570015318076S500x500Q85.jpg\" alt=\"Notre Dame Carvings...Avec Lobster\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;ve tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=notre+dame+cathedral+lobster\">googling for the answer<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also asked historians and the few French people who I personally know. None of them have any clue as to why it is there.<\/p>\n<p>Help me, Internet. You&#8217;re my only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Google Answers got shut down, this is the next best thing. I will pay $20 to the first person that can bring me two or three good citations explaining the significance of the lobster that is carved into the Notre Dame Cathedral. It&#8217;s on the outside, to the top right of the exit. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/why-is-there-a-lobster-carved-into-the-notre-dame-cathedral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is there a lobster carved into the Notre Dame Cathedral?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[541,540,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}