Latin is a dead language,
\nIt’s dead as it can be.
\nIt killed the ancient Romans,
\nAnd now it’s killing me.
\nThose are dead who wrote it;
\nThose are dead who spoke it;
\nThose will die who learn it;
\nAnd, blessed death, they earn it.<\/i>
\n–Poem that Robert’s father (who knew Latin) taught him<\/p>\n
Crusto volanti noli obstare, y’all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Latin is a dead language, It’s dead as it can be. It killed the ancient Romans, And now it’s killing me. Those are dead who wrote it; Those are dead who spoke it; Those will die who learn it; And, blessed death, they earn it. –Poem that Robert’s father (who knew Latin) taught him Crusto … Continue reading “Latin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe","category-things-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}