{"id":96,"date":"2009-07-08T18:54:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-07-09T06:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T13:19:45","slug":"james-a-garfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"James A. Garfield?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:BKBySDzMTooFrM:http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/pnp\/cph\/3a50000\/3a53000\/3a53200\/3a53293r.jpg\" align=\"right\"> Yes, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/JamesGarfield\/\">James A. Garfield<\/a>. I&#8217;m currently reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0873382102\/conlangorg-20\">biography<\/a> of our 20th President. Why? First, he was born just a little over ten miles from where I live. Second, he was a fascinating individual and his Presidency (to me, at least) seems like it was a missed opportunity. &#8220;But what does he have to do with conlangs and languages?&#8221; Glad you asked. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/quotations\/natlang.html\">Quotations<\/a> site of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\">The Conlanger&#8217;s Library<\/a> for a very favorable quote of Garfield&#8217;s concerning German. Yes, German, that language <a href=\"http:\/\/www9.georgetown.edu\/faculty\/jod\/texts\/twain.german.html\">disparaged<\/a> by Mark Twain. Garfield was also a scholar of &#8220;dead&#8221; languages and was a professor of Latin and Greek. His fiancee, Lucretia Randolph, and he actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0870133381\/conlangorg-20\">exchanged letters<\/a> concerning the worth of studying languages. Alas, but Garfield&#8217;s language acumen didst not blossom into the full grown flower of language creation&#8230;ahem, sorry, I was channeling the 19th century&#8217;s prose. <em>Mea culpa<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that James A. Garfield. I&#8217;m currently reading a biography of our 20th President. Why? First, he was born just a little over ten miles from where I live. Second, he was a fascinating individual and his Presidency (to me, at least) seems like it was a missed opportunity. &#8220;But what does he have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[28,20,22],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-additions","tag-garfield","tag-library","tag-quotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}