{"id":482,"date":"2008-02-19T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/482"},"modified":"2008-02-19T00:16:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T04:16:43","slug":"marbles-in-the-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/02\/19\/marbles-in-the-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Marbles in the Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dava Sobel on John Harrison in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140258795\/ref=nosim\/roblog-21\">Longitute<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Harrison\">Harrison<\/a>, according to those who admired him most, never could express himself clearly in writing. He wrote with the scrivener&#8217;s equivalent of marbles in his mouth&#8230;. The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually punctuated, for twenty-five pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I propose we call long winded typing which no can understand the point &#8220;Marble keys&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dava Sobel on John Harrison in Longitute: Harrison, according to those who admired him most, never could express himself clearly in writing. He wrote with the scrivener&#8217;s equivalent of marbles in his mouth&#8230;. The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually punctuated, for twenty-five pages. I propose we call long winded typing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[271,283,522,528],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-ims","tag-user-interface","tag-wikipedia","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-7M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}