“Beware the Ides of March,” they say
\nAnd yes, that was a fateful day
\nFor as Spurina did foretell
\nOn cue, the mighty Caesar fell.<\/i><\/p>\n
When nowadays the phrase is said
\nIt is without that tone of dread,
\nYet still we keep the phrase around
\nPerhaps because we like the sound.<\/p>\n
It has a certain melody
\nAnd words, like air itself, are free.
\nAlas, we never celebrate
\nToday, this time of year, this date.<\/p>\n
<\/i>So we ignore the Ides of May,
\nIt didn’t need to be that way.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Beware the Ides of March,” they say And yes, that was a fateful day For as Spurina did foretell On cue, the mighty Caesar fell. When nowadays the phrase is said It is without that tone of dread, Yet still we keep the phrase around Perhaps because we like the sound. It has a certain … Continue reading “The Ides of May”<\/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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28432,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28431\/revisions\/28432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}