{"id":508,"date":"2014-02-21T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2016-12-17T05:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T10:50:55","slug":"concordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/concordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Concordia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pompeii_family_feast_painting_Naples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513\" alt=\"Pompeii_family_feast_painting_Naples\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pompeii_family_feast_painting_Naples-300x267.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pompeii_family_feast_painting_Naples-300x267.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Pompeii_family_feast_painting_Naples.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple post today, a reminder that tomorrow, the 22nd of February, is the Roman festival of the goddess Concordia. It is a feast of goodwill that was known also as Charistia. This is a day for folks to reconcile their differences, to make amends, and it was traditionally celebrated as a meal amongst family and friends, with one purpose: the settling of all disputes that cause discord. Harmony is the goal.<\/p>\n<p>When I ponder all the people in my family lore, all the ancestors, all the folks in old sepia and black and white photographs, and when I think of all the stories that accompany the faces, I think about Concordia and this very special day set aside for the resolution of differences. I think about the people we remember who never had a pleasant or positive thing to say, and I think about the people we remember with kindness, and I know exactly into which camp I hope the people who come afterwards place me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: &#8220;Convito,&#8221; a fresco painting from Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Italy), before 79 AD, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple post today, a reminder that tomorrow, the 22nd of February, is the Roman festival of the goddess Concordia. It is a feast of goodwill that was known also as Charistia. This is a day for folks to reconcile their differences, to make amends, and it was traditionally celebrated as a meal amongst family [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}