{"id":1220,"date":"2006-04-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/24\/a-quick-meme\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T22:53:26","slug":"a-quick-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/a-quick-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I’m busy, I thought I’d belatedly pick up on that Wikipedia birthday meme a bunch<\/a> of people<\/a> have been doing. Apparently it’s three events, two births and one death, as such:<\/p>\n

Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n

41 AD – Claudius<\/a> – the guy who conquered Britain, thus laying the foundations of our language, civilisation, and shared culture with Europe – becomes Emperor of Rome
\n1327 – Edward III<\/a> – the chap who started the Hundred Years War<\/a> – takes over his father’s throne (well, his mother deposes his father, at least) to begin his 50-year reign
\n1919 – The League of Nations<\/a> – the half-arsed predecessor of the United Nations – founded<\/p>\n

Births:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire<\/a> – womaniser, revolutionary, builder of Chatsworth House and all-round top Whig
\n1882 – Virginia Woolfe<\/a> – writer and manic depressive who, coincidentally, committed suicide not too many miles from where I was born…<\/p>\n

Death:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1640 – Robert Burton<\/a> – author of The Anatomy of Melancholy<\/a>, one of the finest books ever written (and available online here<\/a> and, to download, here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because I’m busy, I thought I’d belatedly pick up on that Wikipedia birthday meme a bunch of people have been doing. Apparently it’s three events, two births and one death, as such: Events: 41 AD – Claudius – the guy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zzzzzzz","category-nosemonkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}