{"id":13447,"date":"2010-11-24T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/24\/13447.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:07","slug":"testing-testing-three-two-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/11\/24\/testing-testing-three-two-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing, testing, three, two, one."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am curious&#8212;I was mentioning to my Perfect Non-Reader that the first day of the first Test of the Ashes was about to start, and she made a comment about the connection of a sports Test and a school test. So I, naturally, asked whether she thought the use in sports was older than the use in education, or veesy versey. And off we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/06\/09\/12158.html\">my OED<\/a>. But it did not answer my question.\n<p>There is a reference to a cricket Test match in 1862, so that&#8217;s a line for that. But it seems to treat school tests as a unremarkable extension of any kind of testing anybody or anything for any reason, and doesn&#8217;t bother to give a quote for it. I suspect it is from the middle of the nineteenth-century some time,  but I don&#8217;t really know. I suppose the next step is to search the newspaper archive. Hmph. I&#8217;m clearly not going to get an answer before the first ball.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger hasn&#8217;t been this exciting about a sporting event since\u2026 well, you can probably guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglophilia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19226,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions\/19226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}