{"id":15342,"date":"2002-12-11T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/11\/symbol-officially-named\/"},"modified":"2002-12-11T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T12:48:00","slug":"symbol-officially-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/11\/symbol-officially-named\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;@&#8221; Symbol Officially Named!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all of those years not knowing what to call the&quot;@&ldquo; symbol, France has stepped up to allay our confusion and <a href=\"http:\/\/iol.co.za\/index.php?click_id=31&amp;art_id=qw1039441680888B216&amp;set_id=1\" target=\"_blank\">offically dubbed it the &quot;arobase&rdquo;<\/a> after &ldquo;an ancient Spanish measure that used the same symbol of the letter &lsquo;a&rsquo; surrounded by a circle.&rdquo;  I don&rsquo;t know about you, but boy, will I sleep easier now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90038876?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all of those years not knowing what to call the&quot;@&ldquo; symbol, France has stepped up to allay our confusion and offically dubbed it the &quot;arobase&rdquo; after &ldquo;an ancient Spanish measure that used the same symbol of the letter &lsquo;a&rsquo; surrounded by a circle.&rdquo; I don&rsquo;t know about you, but boy, will I sleep easier &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/11\/symbol-officially-named\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;@&#8221; Symbol Officially Named!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}