{"id":68,"date":"2006-11-05T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2006\/11\/05\/how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T13:35:21","slug":"how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2006\/11\/05\/how-i-spent-my-christmas-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"How I spent my Christmas vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=05736125\">This collection of poems<\/a>, primarily written by John Husbands, is most notable for containing the first published work by Samuel Johnson. Johnson wrote \u201cMessia,\u201d a Latin translation of Alexander Pope\u2019s \u201cMessiah,\u201d in 1728. It was a Christmas vacation assignment from his tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, William Jorden, who then passed it on to his Pembroke colleague, Husbands. Although Johnson was just 19 when he wrote it, he remained sufficiently pleased with \u201cMessia\u201d to republish it with minor revisions in <em>Gentleman\u2019s Magazine<\/em> in 1752.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Messia1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2006\/11\/Messia1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Messia2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/files\/2006\/11\/Messia2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of poems, primarily written by John Husbands, is most notable for containing the first published work by Samuel Johnson. Johnson wrote \u201cMessia,\u201d a Latin translation of Alexander Pope\u2019s \u201cMessiah,\u201d in 1728. It was a Christmas vacation assignment from his tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, William Jorden, who then passed it on to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}