{"id":37696,"date":"2015-10-29T01:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=37696"},"modified":"2015-10-28T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T08:05:27","slug":"robert-burton-might-well-have-loved-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/robert-burton-might-well-have-loved-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"robert burton might well have loved the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His Anatomy of Melancholy&#8230;  This never-ending gathering of scholarship could seem a testimony to the ultimate vanity of human knowledge, as melancholy as the endless sea of information that our screens indifferently project to our digital onlookers\u2019 tired eyes.  <small>\u2013Noga Arikha, The public domain review<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- publicdomainreview.org\/2013\/05\/01\/as-a-lute-out-of-tune-robert-burtons-melancholy\/ --><\/p>\n<p><!--- whose first of six editions published during the Oxford clergyman\u2019s lifetime appeared in 1621, is the apogee of Renaissance scholarship \u2013 at once the summa of classical learning spliced and rendered in the vernacular for the delight of its early modern audience, and a dense network of embedded quotations, a seemingly infinite set of hyperlinks. ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Anatomy of Melancholy&#8230; This never-ending gathering of scholarship could seem a testimony to the ultimate vanity of human knowledge, as melancholy as the endless sea of information that our screens indifferently project to our digital onlookers\u2019 tired eyes. \u2013Noga Arikha, The public domain review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37727,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37696\/revisions\/37727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}