{"id":189,"date":"2006-09-07T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2006-09-07T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T15:59:16","slug":"last-pus-blow-to-chanty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Last pus blow to chanty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing a quickie for Ariel, the <span class=\"caps\">BBC <\/span>in house magazine, about the new Google archive news service and thought I would, you know, check how well it worked. So I typed in &#8220;Ampthill Claimant&#8221; as an example of the kind of story that is now almost entirely forgotten, but in its day filled a lot of newsprint, even in America. I only got five results &#8212; clearly they are not indexing English papers &#8212; and none from older than 1976, though the scandal dates from the 1920s. So they have not got back very far with their digitising, either. When I clicked on a link whose text was <span class=\"sane\">&#8230; claim to the estate of the Baron Ampthill hinged on his contention that he &#8230; this year in Ireland at the age of 80 <span class=\"caps\">THE NEW CLAIMANT <\/span>is John Russell, &#8230;<\/span> I got this &#8212;<\/p>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"unfortunate OCR.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/images\/unfortunate%20OCR.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Followed by a demand for more money if I wanted to know what it <em>really<\/em> meant. Thanks, Google, but no thanks. This isn&#8217;t even Beta.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing a quickie for Ariel, the <span class=\"caps\">BBC <\/span>in house magazine, about the new Google archive news service and thought I would, you know, check how well it worked. So I typed in &#8220;Ampthill Claimant&#8221; as an example of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=189\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}