{"id":2686,"date":"2005-03-01T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T20:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/03\/01\/2686.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:48:07","slug":"from-llareggub-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/03\/01\/from-llareggub-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"From Llareggub Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/wayman\/117443.html\">is reliably informed<\/a> that today is that most Welsh of all days, St. David&#8217;s Day. To celebrate, drink a glass of water, put a leek in your cap, or preach with such eloquence that the ground underneath you rises to create a platform. Go up a hill and come down a mountain. Pay off any lost wagers, sing off-key, and refrain from writing poetry (except, of course, from the one about the maid from Aberystwyth, who went to the mill to get grist with). Suppress the Pelagian heresy. Contract black lung disease. Go to Yale. Or Bryn Mawr. Seek the Grail. Watch <I>The Silence of the Lambs<\/I>. Or <I>Becket<\/I>. Listen to Led Zeppelin. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/welsh\/\">Read the news<\/a>.\n<p>And remember, if by the age of eight, one is not dead, a deacon, or founding a left-wing splinter group, one is dawdling.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger is reliably informed that today is that most Welsh of all days, St. David\u2019s Day. To celebrate, drink a glass of water, put a leek in your cap, or preach with such eloquence that the ground underneath&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17324,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/17324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}