{"id":2295,"date":"2021-05-26T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jboor.net\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2022-02-27T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T14:40:32","slug":"benjamin-jowett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Jowett (re-run)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This song is about the 19th-Century British classicist and translator Benjamin Jowett, but mainly in the way in which spanish moss is about a branch. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=996970427\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=ffffff\/tracklist=false\/track=1790490548\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/jermboor.bandcamp.com\/album\/songs-2009-2019\">Songs 2009-2019 by Jerm Boor<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nJowett&#8217;s students, allegedly, wrote a verse about him, which is useful for pronouncing his last name:<\/p>\n<p><em>My name is Benjamin Jowett<br \/>\nAnd if it is knowledge I know it.<br \/>\nI teach at Balliol College,<br \/>\nAnd what I don&#8217;t know isn&#8217;t knowledge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken this and run with it, to see where it would go &#8212; without, I&#8217;m afraid, much <a href=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/200px-Benjamin_Jowett.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/200px-Benjamin_Jowett.png\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"20\" width=\"200\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/200px-Benjamin_Jowett.png 200w, https:\/\/jermboor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/200px-Benjamin_Jowett-164x300.png 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> regard for the old guy&#8217;s legacy. I hope he doesn&#8217;t mind.  <\/p>\n<p>My song includes a few true things about Jowett &#8212; he had a thing for Florence Nightingale; he was considered heretical as Anglican clergymen go. But the better part is bunkum, or the gratuitous projection of the author&#8217;s personal ennui onto the defenseless corpse of an Oxford Don. If you are doing a report on Benjamin Jowett for school, move along.  <\/p>\n<p>But the pronunciation of Benjamin Jowett&#8217;s last name &#8212; it must be admitted and certainly stands to reason and ought not to be the subject of rational doubt &#8212; is one of the things that a person might know. And now you know it. So there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song is about the 19th-Century British classicist and translator Benjamin Jowett, but mainly in the way in which spanish moss is about a branch. Songs 2009-2019 by Jerm Boor Jowett&#8217;s students, allegedly, wrote a verse about him, which is useful for pronouncing his last name: My name is Benjamin Jowett And if it is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/?p=2295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Benjamin Jowett (re-run)&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFJp-B1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}