{"id":211,"date":"2003-07-15T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/15\/word-of-the-day-wunderkammer\/"},"modified":"2003-07-15T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2003-07-15T20:20:02","slug":"word-of-the-day-wunderkammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/15\/word-of-the-day-wunderkammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: Wunderkammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"179\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/files\/2003\/07\/cabinex.gif\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\">Wunderkammer is a german word&nbsp;for what&nbsp;was known in English as the &#8216;Cabinet of curiosities.&#8217; The word came to my attention recently from an article in an old&nbsp;Brill&#8217;s Content (cf. links below) using it as a metaphor for links-oriented blogs\/&#8217;personal portals.&#8217; As far as I can tell that reference was picking up on an earlier on in Feed magazine, which itself cites an earlier unknown source. <\/p>\n<p>I just found it delightful to be reminded of that history and of the impulse to collect, categorize and display.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><p>(see also<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20011218042300\/http:\/\/www.feedmag.com\/feature\/cx329lofi.html\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20011218042300\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.feedmag.com\/<br \/>\nfeature\/cx329lofi.html<\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010602180435\/www.brillscontent.com\/2001may\/features\/web_portals.shtml\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010602180435\/<br \/>\nwww.brillscontent.com\/2001may\/<br \/>\nfeatures\/web_portals.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.infinit.net\/cabinet\/\">http:\/\/pages.infinit.net\/cabinet\/<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderwalker.walkerart.org\/\">http:\/\/wonderwalker.walkerart.org\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wunderkammer is a german word&nbsp;for what&nbsp;was known in English as the &#8216;Cabinet of curiosities.&#8217; The word came to my attention recently from an article in an old&nbsp;Brill&#8217;s Content (cf. links below) using it as a metaphor for links-oriented blogs\/&#8217;personal portals.&#8217; As far as I can tell that reference was picking up on an earlier on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/15\/word-of-the-day-wunderkammer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the day: Wunderkammer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}