The Ides of March marks the 15th\u00a0day of March in the Roman calendar. A soothsayer told Julius Caesar one month before March 15 that he\u00a0would be in danger in the next 30 days. Exactly 30 days later in Rome\u00a0on March 15, 44 B.C., Emperor Julius Caesar was assassinated, the event recorded by the Roman poet Terence.<\/p>\n
William Shakespeare used the line \u201cbeware the ides of March\u201d in 1601 in his tragic play, Julius Caesar. The phrase has since entered the English language as a superstitious warning of imminent danger. What follows is the last half of my sonnet \u201cCaveat Emptor – Ignoring the Ides of March\u201d published a few years ago\u00a0here in the Saipan Tribune. A new poem for the same date follows it.<\/p>\n
\u201cPay no heed to gossips in a town without pity The Ides of March marks the 15th\u00a0day of March in the Roman calendar. A soothsayer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWash hands frequently don\u2019t panic about the virus
\nPhysician heal thyself the ancient Greek doctor said
\nLook for ethical leaders and scientific truth to inspire us
\nApply whatever common sense is already in your head
\nCareful what you wish for you might someday get it
\nWho the hell said it? You might as well just forget it.\u201d
\n\u00a0
\nThe Ides of March? Fuhgeddaboudit<\/strong>
\n\u00a0
\nBeware the ides of March? Uh, fuhgeddaboudit
\nyou might best beware of the big blabbermouth
\nwhite collar criminals with white shirts full of starch
\nthose who say \u201ctruth isn\u2019t truth\u201d north is not south
\nfolks who dye their hair green on the 17th\u00a0of March
\nmany implausible political conspiracy theories\u00a0
\nand those who do not want you to ever doubt it
\n\u00a0
\nBe wary of eating any food while watching TV
\nand watching all those ads about personal body\u00a0
\nproblems selling underwear medicine and deodorant
\nyou don\u2019t ever plan on trying them and have no plans\u00a0
\non buying them but those ads will surely give you\u00a0
\nindigestion or make you sick to your stomach for free
\n\u00a0
\nThe problems plagues and pricey cost of any superstition
\nmay substantially deteriorate a healthy mental condition
\nget off the couch take a walk go swimming at the beach
\nhealthy living and thinking is well within your reach.
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"