{"id":134,"date":"2008-08-22T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-08-22T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T23:11:05","slug":"300-sheep-in-the-gutenberg-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/08\/22\/300-sheep-in-the-gutenberg-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"300 sheep in the (Gutenberg) bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It has been calculated that each copy of the Gutenburg Bible required the skins of 300 sheep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; from an article on printing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/gutenberg-painting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"425\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 283px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 283\/425;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 600 years ago in 1439,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Gutenberg\"> Johannes Gutenberg<\/a> unvieled his movable-type printing press and revolutionized the western world. In those days, though, they still used parchment made from animal hide. It was still a while before paper technology caught up. Billy Collin&#8217;s reflects on this in his poem <strong>Flock<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can see them squeezed into the holding pen<br id=\"pmhu3\" \/>behind the stone building<br id=\"pmhu4\" \/>where the printing press is housed<br id=\"pmhu5\" \/><br id=\"pmhu6\" \/>all of them squirming around<br id=\"pmhu7\" \/>to find a little room<br id=\"pmhu8\" \/>and looking so much alike<br id=\"pmhu9\" \/><br id=\"pmhu10\" \/>it would be nearly impossible<br id=\"pmhu11\" \/>to count them,<br id=\"pmhu12\" \/>and there is no telling<br id=\"pmhu13\" \/><br id=\"pmhu14\" \/>which one will carry the news<br id=\"pmhu15\" \/>that the Lord is a shepherd,<br id=\"pmhu16\" \/>one of the few things they already know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/wallyg\/2617472088\/\">Photo credit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been calculated that each copy of the Gutenburg Bible required the skins of 300 sheep. &#8211; from an article on printing Nearly 600 years ago in 1439, Johannes Gutenberg unvieled his movable-type printing press and revolutionized the western world. In those days, though, they still used parchment made from animal hide. It was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/08\/22\/300-sheep-in-the-gutenberg-bible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;300 sheep in the (Gutenberg) bible&#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":[41,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-literature","category-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}