{"id":1124,"date":"2016-09-15T21:17:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:21:44","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"The Professor and the Madman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n<strong>From the Library - The Professor and the Madman<\/strong>\n<strong>9\/15\/2016<\/strong>\n--><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s featured book is <em>&#8220;The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary&#8221;<\/em> by Simon Winchester. This volume explored one of the fascinating chapters in the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It reads like a mystery on the par with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes (Adult Content).<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Professor-and-the-Madman-9-15-2016.jpg\" alt=\"The Professor and the Madman\"><\/center><br \/>\nDLWA Call Number: PE1617.O94 W56 1998<br \/>\nAmazon.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Professor-Madman-P-S-Simon-Winchester-ebook\/dp\/B000FCKM7E\/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1\/181-4304789-1650125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Title: The Professor and the Madman<\/li>\n<li>ISBN:  0060839783 (ISBN13: 9780060839789)<\/li>\n<li>Language: English<\/li>\n<li>Setting: United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>Literary awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Non fiction (1998)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;DLW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s featured book is &#8220;The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary&#8221; by Simon Winchester. This volume explored one of the fascinating chapters in the making of the Oxford English &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/?p=1124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-authors","tag-book-collecting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ftl.dlwa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}