{"id":1478,"date":"2004-10-25T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2004-10-25T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T21:31:53","slug":"never-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"never enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday I bought yet another historical atlas: <i>Muir&#8217;s<\/i> (1927\/52).  I learn to my surprise that southern British Columbia was once called New Caledonia, and northern Manitoba (before 1912) was New South Wales.  Why isn&#8217;t there a New <em>North<\/em> Wales or, for that matter, a New just plain Wales?  (William Penn proposed to name his colony New Wales; the King disapproved, and Sylvania was Penn&#8217;s second choice.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday I bought yet another historical atlas: Muir&#8217;s (1927\/52). I learn to my surprise that southern British Columbia was once called New Caledonia, and northern Manitoba (before 1912) was New South Wales. Why isn&#8217;t there a New North Wales or, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}