{"id":1300,"date":"2009-02-02T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2009-09-27T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T05:51:57","slug":"descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/guernsey\/7866103.stm\"><q><q>Mighty<\/q> HMS Victory wreck found<\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broacasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">But the wreck's location, 62 miles (100km) away from the rocks, suggests the 74-year-old admiral was not to blame.<br \/><br \/>His ancestor Sir Robert Balchin said: <q>A piece of my family history and of national history has come alive.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;As a family we have always been proud of Sir John but this confirms what a fantastic admiral he was.<\/q><\/blockquote><\/div> <p>One of the functions of the 'Net has been to demonstrate that the typical British journalist doesn't know English any better than does the typical American journalist.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">[<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">Up-Date<\/span><\/span> (18:43<abbr title=\"Pacific Standard Time\">PST<\/abbr>)<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">:<\/span> The word <q>ancestor<\/q> has been replaced with <q>descendant<\/q>.<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mighty HMS Victory wreck found from the BBC But the wreck's location, 62 miles (100km) away from the rocks, suggests the 74-year-old admiral was not to blame.His ancestor Sir Robert Balchin said: A piece of my family history and of national history has come alive.&#8220;As a family we have always been proud of Sir John [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[287,182],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-english","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}