{"id":495,"date":"2009-02-03T23:51:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-02-04T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T04:54:19","slug":"bad-things-come-in-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Bad Things Come in Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his commentary on Horace&#8217;s Soracte Ode (1.9), David West writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Horace says sententiously, &#8216;When winds stop blowing, trees stop shaking&#8217;, meaning of course that unpleasant things do not last for ever. This could be said of a plague of locusts or a broken ankle or a professor with tenure&#8221; (<em>Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem<\/em>, Oxford 1995, 42-3)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The third unpleasant thing is odd at first glance, and suggests that West had at least one unpleasant colleague to put up with until he either died or retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his commentary on Horace&#8217;s Soracte Ode (1.9), David West writes: &#8220;Horace says sententiously, &#8216;When winds stop blowing, trees stop shaking&#8217;, meaning of course that unpleasant things do not last for ever. This could be said of a plague of locusts or a broken ankle or a professor with tenure&#8221; (Horace Odes I: Carpe Diem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}