{"id":4969,"date":"2010-04-01T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:46:11","slug":"april-fools-day-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/01\/april-fools-day-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools&#8217; Day origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4970\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/April-Fools-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"April Fools' Day\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Most <a title=\"credit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1635223\/20100331\/story.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">credit<\/a> for the origin of April Fools&#8217; Day to\u00a0King Charles IX in 16th Century France when he move New Years from the end of March to January &#8212;\u00a0with those still marking the new year in April mocked as fools.\u00a0 But history emeritus Professor <a title=\"Joseph Boskin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/facemeritus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Boskin<\/a>\u00a0still gets media calls each year asking about\u00a0how he told an AP reporter in 1983 a <a title=\"phony story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2010\/0401\/April-Fools-Day-history-Be-wary-of-those-who-say-they-know.\" target=\"_blank\">phony story <\/a>about April Fools&#8217; origin &#8211; as a joke &#8211; and they\u00a0ran the story anyway.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So it doesn&#8217;t matter what I&#8217;ve written or have done, my Warholian 15 minutes is an April Fools&#8217; Day story.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Joseph Boskin, 617-353-8312, <a href=\"mailto:jboskin@bu.edu\">jboskin@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most credit for the origin of April Fools&#8217; Day to\u00a0King Charles IX in 16th Century France when he move New Years from the end of March to January &#8212;\u00a0with those still marking the new year in April mocked as fools.\u00a0 But history emeritus Professor Joseph Boskin\u00a0still gets media calls each year asking about\u00a0how he told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2584,2585],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}