{"id":683,"date":"2006-09-13T04:59:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablog.apress.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2006-09-13T04:59:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T11:59:44","slug":"dr-johnson-and-his-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Dr Johnson and his dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I am at the moment reading the story of how Dr Johnson developed his original English dictionary (through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dr-Johnson-Dictionary-Extraordinary-Defined\/dp\/0719566312\/mcwords\">Dr Johnson&#8217;s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book That Defined the World<\/a>, by Henry Hitchings), and it should really be required reading for all writers because it contains some amazing insights and examples for methods of working that apply just as much today as they did in the 18th century. <\/p>\n\t<p>First&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ablog.apress.com\/?p=1264#more-1264\">(more...)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the moment reading the story of how Dr Johnson developed his original English dictionary, and it should really be required reading for all writers because it contains some amazing insights and examples for methods of working that apply just as much today as they did in the 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}