{"id":9071,"date":"2011-11-27T15:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T20:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2011-11-27T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T20:03:14","slug":"the-history-of-english-in-tenish-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/the-history-of-english-in-tenish-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of English, in Ten(ish) Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a sophomore in high school &#8212; this was just a plain old everyday public high school, not a school for high-achieving nerds or anything &#8212; our English teacher let us write an end-of-year research paper on any topic we liked. I have no idea why, of all possible subjects, at the age of 15 I decided to research Old English. (And then, a year later, to continue the investigation by focusing on Middle English.)<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, and no matter in how many forms I see it covered, the topic never gets old for me. <em>This<\/em> was sheer pleasure:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSYwPTUKvdw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>[Hat tip to <a title=\"Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast\" href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jules<\/a>, via Facebook]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Its style reminds me a little of something which might have appeared scattered throughout several episodes of the old <em>Rocky &amp; Bullwinkle<\/em>\u00a0TV show: kidding, but <em>not quite<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a sophomore in high school &#8212; this was just a plain old everyday public high school, not a school for high-achieving nerds or anything &#8212; our English teacher let us write an end-of-year research paper on any topic we liked. I have no idea why, of all possible subjects, at the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[593,274,37,50,713],"tags":[2704],"class_list":{"0":"post-9071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-history-in-the-news","7":"category-cartoons","8":"category-onlineworld","9":"category-language-writing_cat","10":"category-humor-writing_cat","11":"tag-history-of-english","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-2mj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}