{"id":296,"date":"2006-07-12T09:22:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T09:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2006-07-12T09:22:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T09:22:13","slug":"empires-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Empires of the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon Nicholas Ostler&#8217;s <b>Empires of the Word: a language history of the world<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060935723\/sr=8-2\/qid=1152710064\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/103-7509654-8485434?ie=UTF8\">Amazon link<\/a>, and try some of the Explore and Browse options) in a  Brattleboro bookstore and I&#8217;m gobsmacked again. In Bill Thompson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeonbooks.com\/ibp.php?ISBN=0066210860\">9-minute interview<\/a> with Ostler you&#8217;ll get a running start at the flavor of the book. Just buy it &#8211;at less than $12, what do you have to lose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened upon Nicholas Ostler&#8217;s Empires of the Word: a language history of the world (Amazon link, and try some of the Explore and Browse options) in a Brattleboro bookstore and I&#8217;m gobsmacked again. In Bill Thompson&#8217;s 9-minute interview with Ostler you&#8217;ll get a running start at the flavor of the book. Just buy it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}