{"id":132927,"date":"2020-02-20T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/20\/oxford-university-shocks-classics-students-as-it-proposes-to-drop-two-key-texts-by-homer-and-virgil\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:02:09","slug":"oxford-university-shocks-classics-students-as-it-proposes-to-drop-two-key-texts-by-homer-and-virgil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132927","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University shocks classics students as it proposes to drop two key texts by Homer and Virgil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil&#8217;s Aeneid and Homer&#8217;s Iliad may be made optional in an attempt to modernise the degree course, amid a drop in schools teaching Latin and Greek.<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8022703\/Oxford-University-shocks-classics-students-proposes-drop-two-key-texts-Homer-Virgil.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ito=1490&#038;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford University shocks classics students as it proposes to drop two key texts by Homer and Virgil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil&#8217;s Aeneid and Homer&#8217;s Iliad may be made optional in an attempt to modernise the degree course, amid a drop in schools teaching Latin and Greek. Via: Oxford University shocks classics students as it proposes to drop two key texts by Homer and Virgil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}