{"id":2228,"date":"2011-08-24T18:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:02","slug":"who-made-that-dummy-text-aka-lorem-ipsum-via-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/who-made-that-dummy-text-aka-lorem-ipsum-via-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Made That Dummy Text (aka \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lorem Ipsum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)? via NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/24\/who-made-that-dummy-text\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/02floor-loremipsum-blog480.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is probably the most popular sentence in the world that is not meant to be read. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lorem Ipsum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (shorthand for the entire, seemingly endless body of Latin text) is the green screen of the publishing world \u00e2\u20ac\u201d placeholder copy used by designers to replicate how a block of text will look and how many words it will fit before swapping in the fully written article. This apparent gibberish, however, has been used for this purpose since the 1500s, and its foundation goes back even further. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsum.com\/\">lipsum.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 B.C., making it more than 2,000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, <em>consectetur<\/em>, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the citations of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Extremes of Good and Evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) by Cicero, written in 45 B.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/24\/who-made-that-dummy-text\/\">Who Made That Dummy Text? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is probably the most popular sentence in the world that is not meant to be read. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lorem Ipsum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (shorthand for the entire, seemingly endless body of Latin text) is the green screen of the publishing world \u00e2\u20ac\u201d placeholder copy used by designers to replicate how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/who-made-that-dummy-text-aka-lorem-ipsum-via-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who Made That Dummy Text (aka \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lorem Ipsum\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)? via NYTimes.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[478,479],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-loremipsum","tag-originstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}