{"id":6569,"date":"2012-03-14T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=6569"},"modified":"2022-04-02T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:45:20","slug":"encyclopaedia-britannica-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2012\/03\/14\/encyclopaedia-britannica-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The Print Encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/store.britannica.com\/?gclid=CM7d__GU564CFcnc4AodIEFKhw\">Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2012\/0314\/Encyclopedia-Britannica-puts-an-end-to-print-publishing\">latest victim of the Digital Age<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced Tuesday it will stop publishing print editions of its signature product for the first time in its 244-year history. In an acknowledgment of the shifting media landscape and the increasing reliance on digital references, the company said its current encyclopedia \u2013 the 32-volume, 129-pound 2010 edition \u2013 will be unavailable once the existing stock runs out. (If you\u2019re interested, it\u2019s yours for $1,395 and there are only 4,000 sets left.) The digital version of the encyclopedia, however, will live on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This news saddened me. And it also reminded me about the obsolete, hand-me-down encyclopedia I grew up with in the Fifties and Sixties:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The Encyclopedia<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Britannicas, World Books and more<br \/>\nWere common in households of yore.<br \/>\nBut not in my home&#8212;<br \/>\nJust a hand-me-down tome<br \/>\nWith entries, I swear, like &#8220;World War.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Encyclopaedia Britannica is the latest victim of the Digital Age: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. announced Tuesday it will stop publishing print editions of its signature product for the first time in its 244-year history. In an acknowledgment of the shifting media landscape and the increasing reliance on digital references, the company said its current encyclopedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,14,15,74,42,43,3],"tags":[1510,643,2700,2698,2697,2696,4956,2057,1162,2033,2699,4903,890],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45579,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions\/45579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}