{"id":563,"date":"2007-03-16T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=563"},"modified":"2007-03-16T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T04:19:00","slug":"4-days-in-marc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/4-days-in-marc\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Days in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

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14th: Einstein’s birthday.<\/p>\n

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.<\/i> Albert Einstein<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

15th: The Ides of March<\/p>\n

44 BC – Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.<\/i> Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

16th: Zaak’s birthday<\/p>\n

Zaak successfully avoids sharing a noted day in history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

17th: St. Patrick’s Day<\/p>\n

St. Patrick writes in Confessio<\/i> after escaping captivity in Ireland and returning to Roman Britain and becoming a bishop:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I saw a man coming, as it were from Ireland. His name was Victoricus, and he carried many letters, and he gave me one of them. I read the heading: “The Voice of the Irish”. As I began the letter, I imagined in that moment that I heard the voice of those very people who were near the wood of Foclut, which is beside the western sea\u2014and they cried out, as with one voice: “We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us.<\/i> Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Images: Al<\/a>, Jules<\/a>, Pat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

14th: Einstein’s birthday. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-563","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-politics","10":"category-random","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}