{"id":2,"date":"2016-10-02T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zicius.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:51:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Zicius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese characters were not created arbitrarily. Over 5000 years, generations of religious writers, court\u00a0officials, scholars, artists and countless others have built, through their collective effort, a distinctive, extensive and systematic writing system. One fascinating fact about the Chinese writing system is that many characters retained, in their design, pieces of\u00a0information\u00a0about\u00a0the era, the culture, the society, the ideologies in which\u00a0they were created.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A Chinese character is a time capsule \u2013 a time capsule that can bring\u00a0the reader and student back in time, back to the character\u2019s moment of creation \u2013 back to the birth of a language, the birth of a nation.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s open as many of these time capsules as possible!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ABOUT ZICIUS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zicius is an online platform\u00a0designed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>discover the beauty, poetry and history embedded in the Chinese writing system through the study of\u00a0Chinese characters<\/li>\n<li>illustrate\u00a0the beauty, poetry and history of the Chinese writing system in a visual, creative, entertaining way<\/li>\n<li>share that beauty, poetry and history with\u00a0curious souls around the world<\/li>\n<li>avoid tattoo tragedies&#8230; <em>(perhaps not a main goal, but nonetheless a noble goal!)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ABOUT\u00a0MASTER ZICIUS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-81 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zicius.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Ziciusr.png\" alt=\"ziciusr\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master Zicius is one of the great Chinese linguist-etymologist-philosophers of the Internet Age, and is a distant, distant, distant cousin of the great Confucius. Named Zi, meaning\u00a0&#8220;word&#8221; in Chinese, Zicius is\u00a0a tremendously well read and learned scholar of the Chinese language. He will be able to help us decipher the etymology of some of the most difficult characters out there. We are honored to have the Master among us!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese characters were not created arbitrarily. Over 5000 years, generations of religious writers, court\u00a0officials, scholars, artists and countless others have built, through their collective effort, a distinctive, extensive and systematic writing system. One fascinating fact about the Chinese writing system is that many characters retained, in their design, pieces of\u00a0information\u00a0about\u00a0the era, the culture, the society, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zicius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}