{"id":449,"date":"2002-10-28T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T11:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2002-10-28T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2002-10-28T11:49:52","slug":"martial-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Martial art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"loony\">\nEt delator es et calumniator<br \/><br \/>\net fraudator es et negotiator<br \/><br \/>\net fellator es et lanista. Miror<br \/><br \/>\nquare non habeas, Vacerra, nummos<br \/><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/><br \/>\nI came across this in a disintegrating copy of Martial&#8217;s epigrams, translated by James Michie, who makes it out to be:<p>\nYou&#8217;re an informer and a tool of slander<br \/><br \/>\nAnd a notorious swindler and a pander<br \/><br \/>\nAnd a cock-sucker and a gangster and a &#8230;.<br \/><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t make out, Vacerra, why you&#8217;re poor<p>\n\nI suppose the rap version would be something like<p>\n\n<div class=loony\">\nYou&#8217;re a backstabbing snitch<br \/><br \/>\npimp son of a bitch<br \/><br \/>\na cocksucking gangsta<br \/><br \/>\nSo why ain&#8217;t you rich?<\/div>\n<p>\nBut the charming thing was learning that the original meaning of &#8220;negotiator&#8221; was &#8220;pimp&#8221;. Perhaps they read Martial in the White House.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Et delator es et calumniator et fraudator es et negotiator et fellator es et lanista. Miror quare non habeas, Vacerra, nummos I came across this in a disintegrating copy of Martial&#8217;s epigrams, translated by James Michie, who makes it out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}