{"id":738,"date":"2008-03-18T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2008-03-18T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T22:12:00","slug":"just-in-time-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Just in time for spring."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always considered myself something of a stoic.  I don&#8217;t really get worked up about things either positive or negative, an even keel being my persistent goal.  I did find myself laughing out loud when watching Rome and hearing the line \u201cYou\u2019ll not turn to drink, will you? You stoic types often do when disappointed in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American Heritage def of &#8216;stoic&#8217; give s us a bit on where the word comes from:<\/p>\n<p>[Middle English <tt>Stoic<\/tt>, <i>a Stoic<\/i>, from Latin <tt>St\u014dicus<\/tt>, from Greek <tt>St\u014dikos<\/tt>, from <tt>sto\u0101 (poikil\u0113)<\/tt>, <i>(Painted) Porch, where Zeno taught<\/i>; see <tt> st\u0101-<\/tt> in Indo-European roots.]<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8212; the Stoics were the original porchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always considered myself something of a stoic. I don&#8217;t really get worked up about things either positive or negative, an even keel being my persistent goal. I did find myself laughing out loud when watching Rome and hearing the line \u201cYou\u2019ll not turn to drink, will you? You stoic types often do when [&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-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}