{"id":8507,"date":"2010-11-24T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2010-11-24T23:49:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T05:49:04","slug":"discipula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8507","title":{"rendered":"Discipulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\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 Waning Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>An eternal schoolboy.\u00a0 I sit with my legs crossed, feet tapping while I work on my Latin, that inferior position of student working its way into my 63rd year, an anxiety that I have <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8508\" title=\"charlie-3rd-grade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/charlie-3rd-grade.jpg\" alt=\"charlie-3rd-grade\" width=\"59\" height=\"99\" \/>trained myself to use to my advantage, to push myself beyond my comfort zone.\u00a0 So, in spite of stopping earlier, I came back down and finished translating the section from Virgil on Laocoon Speaking Out Against the Trojan Horse.\u00a0 Guess what Laocoon says in this passage.\u00a0 Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!<\/p>\n<p>I like the feeling of wind and snow outside while I work here at my desk, Wheelock up on my reading desk, yellow pad to the right and my grammar and word aids to the left.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s home from work now.\u00a0 Gonna go upstairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\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 Waning Thanksgiving Moon An eternal schoolboy.\u00a0 I sit with my legs crossed, feet tapping while I work on my Latin, that inferior position of student working its way into my 63rd year, an anxiety that I have trained myself to use to my advantage, to push myself beyond my comfort zone.\u00a0 So, in spite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discipulus<\/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],"tags":[4377,2953],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-humanities","tag-latin","tag-virgil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}