{"id":1217,"date":"2010-07-30T00:08:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-07-30T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T23:08:18","slug":"long-s-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;\u017f&#8217; as in Ho\u017fpital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10073005.jpg\" alt=\"St Johns\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia, verdana,  serif;\">The \u017f (or long s) in St John&#8217;s Ho\u017fpital, which looks like our modern f, died out in the decade before and after 1800 according to a wiki article on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_s\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Long_<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">s<\/span><\/a> . The way fs were increasingly being written back then led to confusion and so \u017f was replaced by s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10073004.jpg\" alt=\"St Johns\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Georgia, verdana,  serif;\">All of that is just an a\u017fide to the main purpose of this blog post which is to point out that the entrance to St John&#8217;s Ho\u017fpital, the alm\u017fhouses on the Vineyard, is being refa\u017fhioned at present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u017f (or long s) in St John&#8217;s Ho\u017fpital, which looks like our modern f, died out in the decade before and after 1800 according to a wiki article on Long_s . The way fs were increasingly being written back then led to confusion and so \u017f was replaced by s. All of that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archictecture","tag-st-johns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}