{"id":10,"date":"2009-01-30T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcurr11.me.holycross.edu\/2009\/01\/30\/january-30-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:48:00","slug":"january-30-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2009\/01\/30\/january-30-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"January 30, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On \u201cLost\u201d last night, some of the characters were speaking Latin. <strong>Speaking <\/strong>Latin. Now, granted, it wasn\u2019t all correct, but it was still Latin! Just another piece of evidence that Latin is not a dead language!<\/p>\n<p>Everything here is going pretty much the same. I\u2019m afraid that my life is boring right now! I delivered my presentation in Tolkien yesterday; it was about Tolkien as a medievalist scholar. I learned how to pronounce Anglo-Saxon over the weekend (I\u2019m a cool one) to emphasize a couple of points. We\u2019re steadily moving along through Tolkien\u2019s works; we\u2019ll be finished with <em>The Silmarillion<\/em> by next week. Prof. Mulrooney ended class yesterday by saying, \u201cWell, we\u2019re 22% finished with this semester.\u201d Why must everyone emphasize how quickly this time is flying?<\/p>\n<p>All of my other classes are going well, and I\u2019m really enjoying them. In Ideological Destruction of Art, we\u2019ve just arrived at Hatcheptsut, the female pharaoh, and we\u2019re beginning to examine why her artwork would have been destroyed. In Mathematics and Art, we\u2019re doing experiments with the Golden Ratio and the Fibonnachi numbers. Those numbers are everywhere in nature and art! It\u2019s fascinating because, for some odd reason, those two sets of numbers are just visually appealing to the human eye. Early Christian Literature is going well, too. We haven\u2019t been \u201cbaptized\u201d again, though. Even though they\u2019re not as intertwined as last semester, I enjoy every moment of my classes because I learn just such different things in each class.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the somewhat boring entry. Because of the weather, my friends and I haven\u2019t really been able to do anything except for study and stay in the dorms. I do love the snow, but the ice makes it difficult to have fun excursions. But, fear not! For entertaining entries shall return soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On \u201cLost\u201d last night, some of the characters were speaking Latin. Speaking Latin. Now, granted, it wasn\u2019t all correct, but it was still Latin! Just another piece of evidence that Latin is not a dead language! Everything here is going pretty much the same. I\u2019m afraid that my life is boring right now! I delivered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/2009\/01\/30\/january-30-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January 30, 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/cmcurr11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}