{"id":12814,"date":"2013-01-01T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T06:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2013-05-30T18:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:44:49","slug":"january-random-thread-muse-v-10-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12814","title":{"rendered":"January Random Thread: Volume 10, Number 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Muse_cover_May-June_2006.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of May\/June 2006 issue of Muse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Happy 2013! This year, in a return to its Muserly roots, the blog is dedicating each monthly random thread to an especially memorable issue or article of the magazine that brought us all together.<\/p>\n<p>For January it&#8217;s the May\/June 2006 issue on the theme of language, which contained (among other things) &#8220;Learning to Speak&#8221; by Fiona Cowie; John Noble Wilford&#8217;s article about the revival of Virginia Algonquian, the language of Pocahontas; and, of course, the inimitable &#8220;English as She Is Spoke.&#8221; Not to mention an exceptionally bizarre &#8220;Kokopelli &#038; Company&#8221; strip, in which Chad performs exploratory brain surgery on Urania:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Urania_brain_surgery.gif\" alt=\"Chad removes Urania's brain, messily\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Users&#8217; Manual:<\/strong> Obey <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=18\">The Rules<\/a>. Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=89\">The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-nonrandom-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13242,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions\/13242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}