{"id":2809,"date":"2022-03-15T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:28:45","slug":"the-ides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2809","title":{"rendered":"The Ides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know \u2014 I&#8217;ve talked about this before, but it\u2019s kind of becoming a tradition that I discuss the Ides of March every year when it comes around. So you probably won\u2019t be learning anything new \u2014 if you want to just skip todays reading, I\u2019ll understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Roman calendar, the midpoint of every month was known as the ides. So the Ides of March was just a single day on the Roman calendar, and even though \u201cides\u201d is plural, it denotes only a single day that happens to fall in the middle of the month. Ides were just a name give to a division of the month and <em>every<\/em> month had its ides.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ides-of-March.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2810\" width=\"159\" height=\"126\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But thanks to Shakespeare and his play <em>Julius Caesar<\/em>, the ides, and specifically, the Ides of March, have become associated with bad luck. The famous words from the play, \u201cbeware the ides of March,\u201d never meant that the Ides of March itself was, or is, sinister. The words only referred to a normal day on the Roman calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve read Julius Caesar, you know that Caesar died because some senators thought he desired too much power and they thought they would save the republic by doing him in. Again, it didn\u2019t exactly work out the way they planned\u2026 so I\u2019m not sure about the current cast of politicians, but if you\u2019re not one of them, the ides of March will probably feel like any other day of the month.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know \u2014 I&#8217;ve talked about this before, but it\u2019s kind of becoming a tradition that I discuss the Ides of March every year when it comes around. So you probably won\u2019t be learning anything new \u2014 if you want &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2809\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}