{"id":30512,"date":"2010-10-23T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2010-10-27T02:56:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T10:56:38","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-23rd-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/23\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-october-23rd-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 October 23rd, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7361\" title=\"2843169400_3449d772db\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/10\/2843169400_3449d772db.jpg\" alt=\"2843169400_3449d772db\" width=\"350\" height=\"435\" \/>Autumn is here. And winter is coming. <\/p>\n<p>The fresco to the left is the cover jacket illustration for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0742567788\/geneexpressio-20\">Why we&#8217;re all Romans<\/a>, a new cultural history which attempts to argue for the unique debts of Western civilization to Rome (in particular as a mediator of the wisdom of the Greeks and Hebrews). If you&#8217;re on the culturally conservative side it might be of some interest, it sports endorsements from a Fellow at the Hoover Institute and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/honors\/kopff.html\">E. Christian Kopff<\/a>. The fresco is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecolefamily.com\/italy\/pompeii\/slide25.htm\">Pompeii<\/a>, explaining its good state of preservation and present day fame and ubiquity. The man&#8217;s name is Terentius Neo, a wealthy merchant or magistrate apparently. The woman is presumed to be his wife. A strange question to throw out: am the only one who thinks that he resembles <a href=\"http:\/\/images.buddytv.com\/articles\/movies\/profiles\/laurence-fishburne.jpg\">Laurence Fishburne<\/a>? The fresco is used a lot because of its quality and prior fame, but I always start thinking of something ludicrous like <i>The Matrix<\/i> when I see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autumn is here. And winter is coming.<br \/>\nThe fresco to the left is the cover jacket illustration for Why we&#8217;re all Romans, a new cultural history which attempts to argue for the unique debts of Western civilization to Rome (in particular as a mediator of the wisdom of the Greeks and Hebrews). If you&#8217;re on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30991,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions\/30991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}