{"id":8880,"date":"2015-06-05T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8880"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:55","slug":"on-the-fine-art-of-the-footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/05\/on-the-fine-art-of-the-footnote\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Fine Art of the Footnote\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-fine-art-of-the-footnote\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/footnotes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever since David Hume noted that, while reading Edward Gibbon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One is also plagued with his Notes, according to the present Method of printing the Book\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and suggested that they \u00e2\u20ac\u0153only to be printed at the Margin or the Bottom of the Page,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d footnotes have been the hallmark of academia. For centuries, then,\u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">the footnote existed as a blunt instrument, wielded by pedants and populists alike, primarily for the transmission of information, but occasionally to antagonize opponents with arch rhetorical asides. <strong>But it\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><strong>would take a couple hundred years until writers again took up the\u00c2\u00a0footnote for other, more artful purposes, discovering in this tiny technique emotional and intellectual depth far beyond the realm of the merely experimental.<\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-fine-art-of-the-footnote\/\">On the Fine Art of the Footnote \u00e2\u20ac\u00b9 Literary Hub<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out how writers today are using footnotes for more artful purposes than the mere transmission of information.<\/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":[1072,1073,42],"class_list":["post-8880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-footnotes","tag-lithub","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880","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=8880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8880\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}