{"id":762,"date":"2003-01-03T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2003-01-03T21:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=762"},"modified":"2010-12-12T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T18:36:12","slug":"1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John J. Miller alerts us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/thecorner\/02_12_29_corner-archive.asp#002306\">The Corner<\/a> that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born eleventy-one years ago today.<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of yet another of my oddball notions.  I don&#8217;t like the word <i>eleventy-first<\/i> (or even <i>twenty-first<\/i>), because the root of <i>first<\/i> has nothing to do with &#8216;one&#8217; let alone &#8216;one more&#8217;: it is related to <i>foremost<\/i>.  Why don&#8217;t we say <i>twenty-oneth<\/i> or <i>twenty-next<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John J. Miller alerts us at The Corner that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born eleventy-one years ago today. Which reminds me of yet another of my oddball notions. I don&#8217;t like the word eleventy-first (or even twenty-first), because the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=762\">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":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}