{"id":3636,"date":"2023-06-10T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2023-06-10T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T14:04:27","slug":"i-came-i-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3636","title":{"rendered":"I Came, I Saw&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone used the phrase, \u201cI came, I saw, I conquered\u201d the other day. I remember hearing it most all my life. It\u2019s origin is attributed to Julius Caesar. According to my extensive research, Caesar first used the phrase after his victory over King Pharmacies II at Pontus (an area located in the modern-day eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when Julius Caesar said, \u201cI came, I saw, I conquered,\u201d he came, he saw, and conquered \u2014 Turkey.<br>Of course Julius Caesar really said, \u201cveni, vidi, vici\u201d the Latin quote that translates to \u201cI came, I saw, I conquered.\u201d\u00a0<br>Today the phrase is used to mean someone totally succeeded at something\u2026..<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone used the phrase, \u201cI came, I saw, I conquered\u201d the other day. I remember hearing it most all my life. It\u2019s origin is attributed to Julius Caesar. According to my extensive research, Caesar first used the phrase after his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3636\">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\/3636"}],"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=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}