{"id":270,"date":"2004-11-25T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2004-11-25T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-26T03:37:00","slug":"arms-and-the-bragiole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Arms and the Bragiole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research on the life of Homer has uncovered surprising details.  Here&#8217;s the first stanza from Butler&#8217;s <em>Iliad<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless<br \/>\n<br \/>ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to<br \/>\n<br \/>Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were<br \/>\n<br \/>the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king<br \/>\n<br \/>of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compare to the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know my husband, your father, your grandfather, of course he&#8217;s not with us<br \/>\n<br \/>now, but when he was alive years ago, after he started his business and we lived<br \/>\n<br \/>on Wesland street with the red house and the Ford, which I tried to learn how to<br \/>\n<br \/>drive, and let me tell you I heard some language from him then, he always was<br \/>\n<br \/>out bowling, you know he liked to bowl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Comparative study has revealed that Homer was a 75-year-old Italian woman from the Bronx. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research on the life of Homer has uncovered surprising details. Here&#8217;s the first stanza from Butler&#8217;s Iliad: Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}