{"id":3328,"date":"2011-10-26T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2011-10-26T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:45:34","slug":"lucius-apuleius-please-call-your-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Lucius Apuleius, Please Call Your Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to write a sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Golden_Ass\"><em>The Golden Ass: Or the Transformations of Lucius.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/8850298\/Zimbabwean-man-claims-prostitute-turned-to-donkey.html\">But with a twist:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now &#8220;seriously in love&#8221; with the animal, according to state media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to write a sequel to The Golden Ass: Or the Transformations of Lucius. But with a twist: A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now &#8220;seriously in love&#8221; with the animal, according to state media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,22],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-RG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":927,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=927","url_meta":{"origin":3328,"position":0},"title":"The Further Adventures of Lucius Vorenus &amp; Titus Pullo","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Netflix has at last delivered the first disk of Rome's second season. I will admit it: I go into happy fanboy mode at the receipt of new episodes.It's like The Sopranos for Pagans. There are no really sympathetic characters, but you can't take your eyes off them.Especially Lindsay Duncan's Servilia--perhaps\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"movies\"","block_context":{"text":"movies","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}