{"id":73,"date":"2011-07-09T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2011-08-22T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T19:52:40","slug":"jack-scrivano-collective-noun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"Jack Scrivano, collective noun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=254\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-254\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"JPSPoster2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JPSPoster2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JPSPoster2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/JPSPoster2.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Francis Jehl, Thomas Edison\u2019s assistant at Menlo Park, once described Edison as a collective noun.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, we think of Edison as the developer of the electric light bulb (among other things). \u00a0But the electric light bulb was really the work of many people for whom Edison was a sort of front man.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of Edison\u2019s co-innovators were happy about this.\u00a0 Others were not.\u00a0 One even took him to court and won the right to be known as the true inventor of the electric light bulb. \u00a0Not that it made a lot of difference.\u00a0 A hundred years later, it is Edison\u2019s name that most people remember.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jack Scrivano, too, is something of a collective noun.\u00a0 He gathers together the word-related thoughts of the team at KiwiStreet and jots them down for a possible wider discussion.\u00a0 Jack has the team\u2019s blessing in this endeavour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Jehl, Thomas Edison\u2019s assistant at Menlo Park, once described Edison as a collective noun.\u00a0\u00a0 Today, we think of Edison as the developer of the electric light bulb (among other things). \u00a0But the electric light bulb was really the work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?page_id=73\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}