{"id":23,"date":"2011-01-02T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-01-12T20:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:59:27","slug":"administration-external-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/administration-external-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Administration: external links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dithered a little bit about whether I should put external links into these posts.\u00a0 I do want these posts to be short, something that you can feel confident that you will finish before you finish your morning coffee.\u00a0 Furthermore, the links would sound repetitive: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Writing_system\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/omniglot.com\">Omniglot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientscripts.com\">Ancient Scripts<\/a>.\u00a0 Wikipedia, Omniglot, Ancient Scripts.\u00a0\u00a0 Wikipedia, Omniglot, Ancient Scripts.\u00a0 Those three sites are by far the best resources available.<\/p>\n<p>However, with some prodding from my favorite husband, I decided to go ahead and include links.\u00a0 Sorry if it makes you late for work.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia tends to be detailed and most comprehensive, but the quality is uneven and sometimes a bit dry.\u00a0 Omniglot is extremely comprehensive, and almost always has links not just to further information, but where to get fonts (something that was important for me).\u00a0 Ancient Scripts.com doesn&#8217;t have good links to elsewhere and there are a lot of scripts it doesn&#8217;t cover at all, but the articles it does have are pretty uniformly well-written and engaging.\u00a0 Ancient Scripts is <em>particularly<\/em> good for the Central American scripts &#8212; Mayan, Aztec, Mixtec, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dithered a little bit about whether I should put external links into these posts.\u00a0 I do want these posts to be short, something that you can feel confident that you will finish before you finish your morning coffee.\u00a0 Furthermore, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/administration-external-links\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}