{"id":635,"date":"2015-02-08T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=635"},"modified":"2016-09-03T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T02:58:23","slug":"an-elegy-for-the-ampersand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"An Elegy for the Ampersand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No boarded play, however grand<br \/>\ncontains within those scrambled hands<br \/>\nbehold, the lowly ampersand<\/p>\n<p>No seriously rightful due<br \/>\nakin, alas, to double-u<br \/>\nare Bob &amp; Hugh or me &amp; you<\/p>\n<p>The case for \u201cand per se and\u201d lies<br \/>\nwithin the work of ancient scribes,<br \/>\nis utterance; and there it dies<\/p>\n<p>The double-u however, though,<br \/>\nis used in terms like woo and woe<br \/>\nand other witless words we know<\/p>\n<p>Some hundred years ago was dissed<br \/>\ndeposed from alphabet\u2019s long list<br \/>\nthe ampersand does not exist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No boarded play, however grand contains within those scrambled hands behold, the lowly ampersand No seriously rightful due akin, alas, to double-u are Bob &amp; Hugh or me &amp; you The case for \u201cand per se and\u201d lies within the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[108,26,36],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-ampersand","tag-lost-forever","tag-not-wheatfield-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2K9yT-af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}