{"id":12590,"date":"2011-12-29T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2016-05-13T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:52:22","slug":"ovid-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12590","title":{"rendered":"Ovid.  Again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0First Moon of the New Year<\/p>\n<p>An Ovidian morning. \u00a0Holding words, conjugations, meanings, clause types, prepositions and adverbs in the head while whirling them around like a Waring blender. \u00a0It&#8217;s satisfying when a sentence finally pops up, like a good smoothie. \u00a0Not always a straight on logical process, though logic can critique the result.<\/p>\n<p>About ten verses a week now. \u00a0Takes, hmmm, 4-6 hours. \u00a0So, if there are 15,000 verses, that&#8217;s 1,500 weeks or 6 to 9,000 hours. \u00a0Which is, what? \u00a03 to 4.5 working years full-time or 30 years a week at a time, taking some time off for vacation. \u00a0Mmmm. \u00a0Don&#8217;t look for that book jacket anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0First Moon of the New Year An Ovidian morning. \u00a0Holding words, conjugations, meanings, clause types, prepositions and adverbs in the head while whirling them around like a Waring blender. \u00a0It&#8217;s satisfying when a sentence finally pops up, like a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ovid.  Again.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,566,184,909],"tags":[4377,1314,2336],"class_list":["post-12590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-humanities","category-literature","category-myth-and-story","tag-latin","tag-ovid","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40363,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions\/40363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}