{"id":524,"date":"2016-10-17T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/?p=524"},"modified":"2016-10-17T23:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:55:46","slug":"english-latin-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2016\/10\/english-latin-question\/","title":{"rendered":"English and the Latin Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are all\u2014more or less deliberately\u2014students of English; we all recognize the value of accurately expressing our ideas and of exactly understanding the ideas of other. Now, though the notion has never dawned upon the large, good-humored, unenlightened public opinion which indirectly shapes our educational policies, to the serious student of English some acquaintance with Latin is not merely convenient, not merely valuable, but quite literally indispensable. At every onward step towards the mastery of his own language and literature he must use his Latin lamp if he has one, or stumble and go astray in the darkness if he has not. In this position the value of Latin <strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0unique.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014The Classical Weekly, Vol. V, No. 26. May 1912. Full column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/roman-roads-media\/english-and-the-latin-question\/1165396460150522\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0(highly recommended!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/roman-roads-media\/english-and-the-latin-question\/1165396460150522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-525 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/classical-weekly.jpg\" alt=\"classical-weekly\" width=\"760\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/classical-weekly.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/classical-weekly-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/classical-weekly-500x189.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are all\u2014more or less deliberately\u2014students of English; we all recognize the value of accurately expressing our ideas and of exactly understanding the ideas of other. Now, though the notion has never dawned upon the large, good-humored, unenlightened public opinion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2016\/10\/english-latin-question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,179,50],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical-education","category-education","category-latin","tag-classical-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}