{"id":147,"date":"2007-03-31T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/147"},"modified":"2008-02-15T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T06:50:20","slug":"speaking-of-samuel-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/147","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Samuel Johnson&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/145>Samuel Johnson<\/a>, you can read the <a href=http:\/\/newark.rutgers.edu\/~jlynch\/Texts\/preface.html target=_blank>Preface to his landmark 1755 dictionary<\/a> at this <a href=http:\/\/andromeda.rutgers.edu\/~jlynch\/ target=_blank>Rutgers English professor&#8217;s<\/a> university page.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth checking out, if not to gain a deeper insight into this unique moment in the art of lexicography and the development of the English language, then at least to enjoy Dr. Johnson&#8217;s wry prose style.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><!--836c39be4c73a43c9cf561bb57fbd096-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--db142af891077c283168c58cd709bda3--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Samuel Johnson, you can read the Preface to his landmark 1755 dictionary at this Rutgers English professor&#8217;s university page. It&#8217;s worth checking out, if not to gain a deeper insight into this unique moment in the art of lexicography and the development of the English language, then at least to enjoy Dr. Johnson&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humor","category-international","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}