{"id":477,"date":"2014-04-19T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=477"},"modified":"2014-04-19T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T18:46:14","slug":"answering-the-important-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/answering-the-important-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering the important questions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/answering-the-important-questions\/\" data-text=\"Answering the important questions&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;such as &#8220;I wonder how the letter W came about?&#8221;. \u00a0OK, this is pretty much just ripped off from <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Althouse<\/a>, but I thought it was interesting. \u00a0So as small thanks, go read <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">her blog<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W\" target=\"_blank\">The History of &#8220;W&#8221; According to Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/60843988\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting tidbit from the Wikipedia history: <em>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #252525;\">The initialism<\/span><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0&#8220;www&#8221; for the World Wide Web<\/span><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0thus, perhaps ironically, has three times as many syllables as the full name.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #252525;\">Huh. \u00a0WWW = nine syllables and World Wide Web = three syllables. \u00a0Conclusion: I am easily amused.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8230;such as &#8220;I wonder how the letter W came about?&#8221;. \u00a0OK, this is pretty much just ripped off from Althouse, but I thought it was interesting. \u00a0So as small thanks, go read her blog too. The History of &#8220;W&#8221; According to Wikipedia Short Video:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}