{"id":3,"date":"2007-06-25T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/2007\/06\/25\/ancient-runes\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T22:14:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T04:14:08","slug":"ancient-runes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/2007\/06\/25\/ancient-runes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Runes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had to turn in a paper for my Writing Systems of the World linguistics class, and my topic was ancient runes.  In the Oxford dictionary, a rune is defined as 1) a letter of an ancient Germanic alphabet; 2) a symbol with mysterious or magical significance.  So from 200 BC to about the 8th century, runes were a writing system that had a strong magical connotation.  Well, today I was reading <em>Harry Potter &amp; the Half-Blood Prince<\/em> for the 468256 time, and one of the subjects at Hogwarts is Ancient Runes!  I thought this was kinda cool because there is a strong sense of magic associated with ancient runes, and it is also a subject offered at the magical school.<\/p>\n<p>Random, I know, but I find things like this interesting.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I had to turn in a paper for my Writing Systems of the World linguistics class, and my topic was ancient runes. In the Oxford dictionary, a rune is defined as 1) a letter of an ancient Germanic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/2007\/06\/25\/ancient-runes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}