{"id":112,"date":"2021-06-13T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkermag-pro\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-01-14T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T10:07:40","slug":"neque-porro-quisquam-est-qui-dolorem-ipsum-quia-dolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/2021\/06\/13\/neque-porro-quisquam-est-qui-dolorem-ipsum-quia-dolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0<em>Before &amp; After<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered 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\u00a0credited\u00a0with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of\u00a0<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by\u00a0<em>consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from\u00a0<em>De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p><p>In particular, the garbled words of&nbsp;<em>lorem ipsum<\/em>&nbsp;bear an unmistakable resemblance to sections 1.10.32\u201333 of Cicero&#8217;s work, with the most notable passage excerpted below:<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cNeque porro quisquam est, qui&nbsp;<em>dolorem ipsum<\/em>&nbsp;quia&nbsp;<em>dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed<\/em>&nbsp;quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><p>A 1914 English translation by\u00a0Harris Rackham\u00a0reads:<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt&#8217;s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before &amp; After\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered 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 As Cicero would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.walkerwp.com\/walkerpress-pro-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}