{"id":7436,"date":"2003-12-02T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/12\/02\/learning-latin-and-sacrificing-pig-cakes-to-saturnalia\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:11:20","slug":"learning-latin-and-sacrificing-pig-cakes-to-saturnalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/12\/learning-latin-and-sacrificing-pig-cakes-to-saturnalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Latin and sacrificing Pig Cakes to Saturnalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">Students in Judy Hunt&#8217;s advanced Latin class at New Haven High School have their reasons for learning a &#8220;dead&#8221; language: higher test scores, a stronger grasp of English and better preparation for college science and medicine courses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">There&#8217;s also the toga parties and pig sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Today, Hunt will stage a &#8220;pig sacrifice&#8221; when she cuts into a cake that has the image of a pig on the frosting. The ceremony is part of an ancient Roman celebration, Saturnalia, named for the god Saturn. To thank him for a good harvest, Hunt said the Romans had a pig sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;Sometimes you need to do weird things to get their interest to create learning,&#8221; said Hunt, who has taught Latin at New Haven for six years.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/newssentinel\/7395436.htm\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Judy Hunt&#8217;s advanced Latin class at New Haven High School have their reasons for learning a &#8220;dead&#8221; language: higher test scores, a stronger grasp of English and better&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}