{"id":77,"date":"2023-03-15T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2023-04-16T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T15:57:51","slug":"fellow-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/fellow-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow historians &#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Linked is the latest edition of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/category\/march-2023-edition\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/category\/march-2023-edition\/\">Back in the Day<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Today, March 15, is the Ides of March, which was supposedly the date of Julius Caesar\u2019s assassination. That said, the newsletter contains nothing about that historic event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But \u2013 this is still a timely read because we are only two days away from St. Patrick\u2019s Day. This edition contains a great piece about Irish observance of past years in Bloomington, plus an account of a book I read about St. Patrick this past year. Notice the use of the word \u201cgreat.\u201d That particular story is the work of Pantagraph writer James Hart in 1938. Hart\u2019s work goes a long way toward keeping us aware of Irish celebrations of the past and the locals behind them. A tip o\u2019 the Irish top hat to him for writing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we\u2019ve switched fonts for the very top of the newsletter. And therein, too, lies a story about Bloomington native Frederic Goudy. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regards \u2013 Jack Keefe&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linked is the latest edition of\u00a0Back in the Day.\u00a0Today, March 15, is the Ides of March, which was supposedly the date of Julius Caesar\u2019s assassination. That said, the newsletter contains nothing about that historic event. But \u2013 this is still a timely read because we are only two days away from St. Patrick\u2019s Day. This &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/fellow-historians\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fellow historians &#8212;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitd.jim210.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}