{"id":7444,"date":"2017-03-22T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T04:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2017-03-22T00:04:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T04:04:50","slug":"when-ancient-history-geeks-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7444","title":{"rendered":"When ancient-history geeks go bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago here at chez Raymond, my friend John Desmond says: &#8220;So, have you heard about the new Iraqi national anthem?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said &#8220;Uh, OK, I&#8217;m braced for this.  What about it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;In the good old Sumer time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I pointed a finger at him and said &#8220;You&#8217;re Akkad!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes. Yes, we probably <em>do<\/em> both deserve a swift kicking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago here at chez Raymond, my friend John Desmond says: &#8220;So, have you heard about the new Iraqi national anthem?&#8221; I said &#8220;Uh, OK, I&#8217;m braced for this. What about it?&#8221; He said &#8220;In the good old Sumer time.&#8221; I pointed a finger at him and said &#8220;You&#8217;re Akkad!&#8221; Yes. Yes, we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7444\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When ancient-history geeks go bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}