{"id":608,"date":"2002-11-16T21:52:29","date_gmt":"2002-11-17T05:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=608"},"modified":"2004-10-22T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T04:02:06","slug":"hortensii-present-and-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Hortensii present and past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago in <i>alt.fan.miss-manners<\/i> someone confessed ignorance that <i>Hortense<\/i> is feminine.  That sent me to the books to learn its etymology.  From E.G.Withycombe, <i>The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names<\/i>, I learn that the Hortensii were a Roman <i>gens<\/i> (~clan).  From the <i>Oxford Classical Dictionary<\/i> I learn of a dictator and a senator both named Quintus Hortensius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago in alt.fan.miss-manners someone confessed ignorance that Hortense is feminine. That sent me to the books to learn its etymology. From E.G.Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, I learn that the Hortensii were a Roman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}