{"id":281,"date":"2025-09-01T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/?p=281"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:56:23","slug":"authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"margin-left:1in;margin-right:1in;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:40px 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align:middle;width:80px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/zerna.jpg\"\/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zerna_Sharp\">Zerna Addis Sharp<\/a> was the creator of the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_and_Jane\">&#8220;Dick &amp; Jane&#8221;<\/a> picture books for kindergartners.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:0px 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align:top;width:80px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/lytton.jpg\"\/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton\">Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/a> was a 19th-century English novelist who&#8217;s most famous today for writing some laughably bad text. (&#8220;It was a dark and stormy night&#8221; is one of the most well-known.) There&#8217;s even an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulwer-Lytton_Fiction_Contest\">contest<\/a> put on by San Jose State University in which participants try to write the worst opening sentence for a novel. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zerna Addis Sharp was the creator of the popular &#8220;Dick &amp; Jane&#8221; picture books for kindergartners. Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a 19th-century English novelist who&#8217;s most famous today for writing some laughably bad text. (&#8220;It was a dark and stormy night&#8221; is one of the most well-known.) There&#8217;s even an annual contest put on by San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephendavies.org\/nlp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}