{"id":4822,"date":"2015-03-12T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:43:02","slug":"the-dentist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/the-dentist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dentist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful if you try this pose, it&#8217;s not for the faint-hearted! It&#8217;s attributed to John Collier (also known as Tim Bobbin) an English caricaturist and satirical post.\u00a0He was famous for his writings in Lancashire dialect and wrote and illustrated books of satirical poetry and dialect terms. One of these collections of poetry was\u00a0<em>Human Passions\u00a0<i>Delineated, <\/i><\/em>published in 1773. In it he savagely lampooned the behaviour of both the upper and lower classes. An etching\u00a0similar to this painting was one of four depicting the agonising process of having a tooth pulled by a dentist, accompanied by a verse:<\/p>\n<p><em>He miss&#8217;d at first, but try&#8217;d again,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then clap&#8217;d his foot o&#8217;th&#8217; chin ;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>He pull&#8217;d \u2014 the patient roar&#8217;d with pain,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And hideously did grin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But lo! \u2014 capricious fortune frown&#8217;d,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And broke the clewkin string,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And threw him backwards on the ground,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>His head made floor to ring.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SWL-by-Jim-Binning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6614\" src=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SWL-by-Jim-Binning.jpg\" alt=\"SWL by Jim Binning\" width=\"315\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful if you try this pose, it&#8217;s not for the faint-hearted! It&#8217;s attributed to John Collier (also known as Tim Bobbin) an English caricaturist and satirical post.\u00a0He was famous for his writings in Lancashire dialect and wrote and illustrated books of satirical poetry and dialect terms. One of these collections of poetry was\u00a0Human Passions\u00a0Delineated, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/the-dentist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dentist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}