{"id":161,"date":"2006-07-16T15:43:20","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-08-19T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T05:29:28","slug":"things-that-warm-my-cold-cold-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Things That Warm My Cold, Cold Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Misreading two lines in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/004258.html#more\">Chicagoboyz<\/a> post, a review of a book on the fall of the Roman Empire. They give the table of contents, which includes these lines:<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Romans 3<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Barbarians 46<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t help reading that as a football score &#8212; Romans 3, Barbarians 46 &#8212; which is not a bad summary of the worst part of the fifth century.<\/li>\n<li>Finding <em>Opera Quae Fuperfunt<\/em> as a title in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/\">ABE Books<\/a> data base.<\/li>\n<li>While still half-asleep at 6:40 am yesterday, I thought of a good title for a novel about a decadent esthete with an NRA membership:  <em>Molon La-B&agrave;s<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misreading two lines in a Chicagoboyz post, a review of a book on the fall of the Roman Empire. They give the table of contents, which includes these lines: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. Romans 3 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. Barbarians 46 I couldn&#8217;t help reading that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[44,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-literature","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}