{"id":97,"date":"2005-10-02T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=97"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:17:45","slug":"seen-in-the-periodical-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Seen In The Periodical Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some classical journal &#8212; it may have been <em>Mnemosyne<\/em> &#8212; I recently ran across a review of a title guaranteed to confuse just about every non-classicist and some percentage of classicists, too:  <em>The Fragments of the Methodists<\/em>, Volume I.  If I&#8217;m not mistaken, these are fragmentary medical texts, and the Methodists are rivals of the Dogmatists and the Empiricists.<\/p>\n<p>I just checked, and the only non-fragmentary Methodist is Soranus, a gynaecologist.  With a name like that, he should have been a proctologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some classical journal &#8212; it may have been Mnemosyne &#8212; I recently ran across a review of a title guaranteed to confuse just about every non-classicist and some percentage of classicists, too: The Fragments of the Methodists, Volume I. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, these are fragmentary medical texts, and the Methodists are rivals of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}