{"id":223,"date":"2005-03-22T11:19:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/index.php\/uncategorized\/crescit-eundo\/"},"modified":"2005-03-22T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2005-03-22T17:19:41","slug":"crescit-eundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"crescit eundo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Letters to the Editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/letters\/327076opinion03-22-05.htm\">ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thunderbolt in Motion<\/p>\n<p>    THE MUCH-CRITICIZED state motto &#8220;crescit eundo&#8221; is actually a quotation from the first-century B.C. Latin poet Lucretius in his epic poem De Rerum Natura, &#8220;On The Nature of Things,&#8221; book 6.<\/p>\n<p>    In context it refers to the motion of a thunderbolt across the sky, which acquires power and momentum as it goes. Whoever chose that as a state motto in the old frontier days obviously knew the classics.<\/p>\n<p>    Once one realizes that the motto is comparing the state of New Mexico to a mighty thunderbolt flashing across the sky, it gives a whole new meaning to the expression.<\/p>\n<p>    WARREN SMITH<br \/>\n    Professor of classics, University of New Mexico<br \/>\n    Albuquerque<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor Thunderbolt in Motion THE MUCH-CRITICIZED state motto &#8220;crescit eundo&#8221; is actually a quotation from the first-century B.C. Latin poet Lucretius in his epic poem De Rerum Natura, &#8220;On The Nature of Things,&#8221; book 6. In context it refers to the motion of a thunderbolt across the sky, which acquires power &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">crescit eundo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}