{"id":26882,"date":"2024-10-09T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26882"},"modified":"2024-10-09T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:34:51","slug":"hongul-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26882","title":{"rendered":"Hongul Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day of the year, in 1446AD, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hangul\">Hongul alphabet<\/a>, created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sejong_the_Great\">Sejong the Great<\/a>, was first published, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hunminjeongeum\">Hunminjeong&#8217;eum<\/a>. In South Korea, October 9 is known as Hongul Day.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of Hongul remains perhaps the most radical and effective use of literacy to level the economic playing field for an entire society. Its creation was a very rare instance when someone at the top of an economically stratified society did something effective to make their society more just and less stratified.<\/p>\n<p>Today is also John Lennon&#8217;s birthday. I suspect he would be very pleased to know that he was born on Hongul Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day of the year, in 1446AD, when the Hongul alphabet, created by Sejong the Great, was first published, as the Hunminjeong&#8217;eum. In South Korea, October 9 is known as Hongul Day. The introduction of Hongul remains perhaps the most radical and effective use of literacy to level the economic playing field for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=26882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hongul Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26883,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26882\/revisions\/26883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}