{"id":1160,"date":"2017-01-02T08:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2017-01-02T08:10:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:10:18","slug":"wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-january-2-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/2017\/01\/02\/wikipedia-article-of-the-day-for-january-2-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia article of the day for January 2, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for January 2, 2017 is <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1Nsezpx\">English Benedictine Reform<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe English Benedictine Reform in the late tenth century was the most important religious and intellectual movement in the later Anglo-Saxon period. The reformers sought to replace married secular clergy in monasteries with celibate contemplative monks who followed the Rule of Saint Benedict. The court of \u00c6thelstan (924\u201339), the first king of the whole of England, began a cosmopolitan trend; future reformers such as \u00c6thelwold of Winchester, Oswald of Worcester, and Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, learned from Continental exponents of Benedictine monasticism. The reformers had close relations with the crown, furthering its interests and depending on its support, especially under King Edgar (959\u201375). Influential artistic workshops established by \u00c6thelwold reached a high standard of craftsmanship in manuscript illustration, sculpture and gold and silver, and his  monasteries produced scholarship and competent prose and poetry in the elaborate hermeneutic style of Latin. His Winchester school helped create the standard vernacular West Saxon literary language, and his pupil \u00c6lfric was its most eminent writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article of the day for January 2, 2017 is English Benedictine Reform. The English Benedictine Reform in the late tenth century was the most important religious and intellectual movement in the later Anglo-Saxon period. The reformers sought to replace married secular clergy in monasteries with celibate contemplative monks who followed the Rule of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[19,293,18],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia","tag-article-of-the-day","tag-english-benedictine-reform","tag-wikipedia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zanariah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}