{"id":1268,"date":"2005-08-21T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2005-08-21T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T13:19:23","slug":"russia-is-our-fatherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Russia is our fatherland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P. Smirnovsky&#8217;s <em>A Textbook of Russian Grammar<\/em> is obviously a book that should be written, even if P. Smirnovsky is unable to undertake the task because he is dead, or possibly never lived. This week&#8217;s &#8220;Author, Author&#8221; competition in the back of the <span class=\"caps\">TLS, <\/span>where you have to identify the sources of quotations, has a perfect phrase of his:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;An oak is a tree. A rose is a flower. A deer is an animal. A sparrow is a bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Google only quotes the phrase above, because it is used as an epigraph for one of Nabokov&#8217;s stories, so I suspected at first that it might all be made up. But further research revealed I have libelled Smirnovsky. He did live, and is remembered in the Reserve Room of the Modern and Mediaeval languages Library of Cambridge University:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Main Author:\tSmirnovskii&#774;, <span class=\"caps\">P.V.<\/span><br \/>\nTitle:\tUchebnik russkoi&#774; grammatiki. (vol. 1).<br \/>\nPublished:\tMoskva, 1898.<br \/>\nFormat:\tBook<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P. Smirnovsky&#8217;s A Textbook of Russian Grammar is obviously a book that should be written, even if P. Smirnovsky is unable to undertake the task because he is dead, or possibly never lived. This week&#8217;s &#8220;Author, Author&#8221; competition in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}