{"id":16220,"date":"2012-09-07T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16220"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:07:04","slug":"tgif-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16220","title":{"rendered":"TGIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Garlic Planting Moon<\/p>\n<p>A Latin day, this time with work on both Ovid and\u00a0Virgil. \u00a0Aeneid&#8217;s first 7 verses, its first sentence with the famous opening phrase, I sing of arms and the man. \u00a0 Greg sees a lot of progress in my work. \u00a0It&#8217;s as if some dam broke a couple of months ago when I began using phrases to translate rather than whole sentences. \u00a0The benefit of hanging in there. \u00a0 (philemon_baucis_bramantino)<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing I can do is to read more and more. \u00a0That ups my vocabulary, increases my facility with grammar and adds to my foundation in written Latin literature.<\/p>\n<p>When I hit Friday afternoon on a week, I feel like the work week is over. \u00a0Tours on Thursday and Latin all Friday morning, then a quiet time.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the garlic goes in the ground, the potatoes come out and I check the bees to see how the feeding is going. \u00a0It will be a pleasure to work outside, as a change from all this head work, and in weather beginning to cool. \u00a0The nights are better now, much better.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also looking forward to getting back to Missing and the revision. \u00a0This last three days: pre-op physical on Wednesday, tours on Thursday and Latin today has not left me with time for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lugnasa \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Garlic Planting Moon A Latin day, this time with work on both Ovid and\u00a0Virgil. \u00a0Aeneid&#8217;s first 7 verses, its first sentence with the famous opening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TGIF<\/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":[87,2109,4003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-latin","category-translating-metamorphoses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220","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=16220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39878,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16220\/revisions\/39878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}