{"id":101074,"date":"2024-04-01T00:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101074"},"modified":"2024-04-01T00:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:23:12","slug":"101074","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101074","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 1, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April<\/p>\n<p>Middle English April &#8220;April,&#8221; from early French <em>avrill<\/em> and Latin APRILIS<\/p>\n<p>The name was given to the month by the ancient Romans. No one knows for certain why the Romans named it as they did. Some Roman authors, and my high school Latin teacher thought that Aprilis was related to the Latin verb aperire meaning &#8220;to open&#8221; because April &#8220;opened&#8221; the buds of leaves and flowers, and\u00a0where we get the medical word &#8216;aperient&#8217; which means a laxative.<\/p>\n<p>Another theory is that the name was based on Apru, an Etruscan form of the name of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1, 2024 April Middle English April &#8220;April,&#8221; from early French avrill and Latin APRILIS The name was given to the month by the ancient Romans. No one knows for certain why the Romans named it as they did. Some Roman authors, and my high school Latin teacher thought that Aprilis was related to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101075,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101074\/revisions\/101075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}