{"id":2370,"date":"2008-03-05T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=511"},"modified":"2008-03-05T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:02:49","slug":"interesting-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/interesting-times-2.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Interesting times&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have liked, and used, the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_you_live_in_interesting_times\">May you live in interesting times<\/a>&#8221; for many years.  I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying.  It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of the argument comes from the Google Book project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teleread.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/is-a-famous-ancient-chinese-curse-really-an-invention-from-1950-an-investigation-using-google-book-search\/\">The story is on the blog TeleRead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.org\/node\/29310\">LISNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have liked, and used, the phrase &#8220;May you live in interesting times&#8221; for many years. I had always thought it to be a Chinese saying. It appears that it is unlikely to be Chinese in origin, and part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/interesting-times-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2934,2937],"tags":[5350],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-google","category-history","tag-google"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}