{"id":10,"date":"2023-08-13T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/newsify\/?p=10"},"modified":"2023-08-13T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:37:15","slug":"latin-scholar-from-hampden-sydney-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/latin-scholar-from-hampden-sydney-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, the prevailing view assumed&nbsp;<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>&nbsp;was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Before &amp; After<\/em>&nbsp;magazine&nbsp;answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p><p>As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p><p>The placeholder text, beginning with the line&nbsp;<em>\u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p><p>Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is&nbsp;credited&nbsp;with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of&nbsp;<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by&nbsp;<em>consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from&nbsp;<em>De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>&nbsp;(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, the prevailing view assumed&nbsp;lorem ipsum&nbsp;was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d&nbsp;Before &amp; After&nbsp;magazine&nbsp;answered a curious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-education","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walker-news-template\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}