{"id":7133,"date":"2015-09-06T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2015-09-06T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T10:04:44","slug":"russells-spelling-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/russells-spelling-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell&#039;s Spelling Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bertrand Russell once proposed the following sentence as a test of spelling:<br \/>\n&#8220;I prophesy the unparalleled embarrassment of a battalion of harassed postillions gauging the symmetry of a potato peeled by a lovable but grisly sibyl.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis was on 21 December 1955, so well before Dan Quayle.<br \/>\n<em>Source<\/em>:  Rupert Crawshay-Williams [1970]:  <em>Russell Remembered<\/em>.  OUP: London, UK, page 114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertrand Russell once proposed the following sentence as a test of spelling: &#8220;I prophesy the unparalleled embarrassment of a battalion of harassed postillions gauging the symmetry of a potato peeled by a lovable but grisly sibyl.&#8221; This was on 21 December 1955, so well before Dan Quayle. Source: Rupert Crawshay-Williams [1970]: Russell Remembered. OUP: London, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","p1","y2015","m09","d06","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}