{"id":16519,"date":"2016-04-28T22:10:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16519"},"modified":"2016-04-28T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T03:22:04","slug":"its-all-greek-to-me-or-latin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16519","title":{"rendered":"Its all Greek to Me, or Latin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just typed <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=%22its+all+Greek+to+me%22\">that phrase<\/a> in my search function and as I suspected discovered I&#8217;d used it in one title previously&#8230;..so I added &#8220;or Latin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/blog\/us-schools-using-greek-and-latin-boost-reading-skills?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=5967229&#038;utm_content=newsletter(5967229)&#038;utm_term=newsletter\">this was an interesting<\/a> educational idea. Its about teaching elementary kids root words and suggests it can pay big dividends. I&#8217;ve always paid attention to them and never more so than when I happlessly took Spanish for a year in college. I found I could guess a lot of Spanish words from their Latin roots. Eg. verde (spring) and the English verdant.<\/p>\n<p>For about a dozen years I was the pronouncer at our regional spelling bees. I see <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=%22Spelling+bee%22\">I&#8217;ve mentioned this<\/a> several times through the years in the blog too. Kids were always asking for the use of words in sentences or their language of origin&#8230;that means root. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just typed that phrase in my search function and as I suspected discovered I&#8217;d used it in one title previously&#8230;..so I added &#8220;or Latin.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16525,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions\/16525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}