{"id":997,"date":"2002-07-20T19:14:43","date_gmt":"2002-07-20T23:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=997"},"modified":"2002-07-20T19:14:43","modified_gmt":"2002-07-20T23:14:43","slug":"awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love that word: it&#8217;s the Californian for &#8220;brilliant&#8221; and suffers from equal Hypobole. If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobel.se\/chemistry\/laureates\/1980\/sanger-autobio.html\">Fred Sanger<\/a> were to offer the right change in the market in Saffron Walden, he&#8217;d be told he was &#8220;Brilliant&#8221;; walking through a drugstore parking lot in Santa Cruz last weekend I heard the following snatch of dialogue:<br \/>\n&#8220;The car&#8217;s over there&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Awesome!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nBut what David Bartlett has done<em> is <\/em>pretty much awesome or brilliant: he has completely rewritten the crappy OpenOffice GB spellchecker files, and produced something that actually understands the rules of English grammer. You&#8217;ll find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyxidium.co.uk\/OOo\/OOo.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love that word: it&#8217;s the Californian for &#8220;brilliant&#8221; and suffers from equal Hypobole. If Fred Sanger were to offer the right change in the market in Saffron Walden, he&#8217;d be told he was &#8220;Brilliant&#8221;; walking through a drugstore parking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}