{"id":90,"date":"2003-04-07T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T22:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parnes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2003\/04\/07\/finis_origine_pendet\/"},"modified":"2003-04-07T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T22:06:59","slug":"finis_origine_pendet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/04\/07\/finis_origine_pendet\/","title":{"rendered":"Finis Origine Pendet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Finis Origine Pendet<\/i>, loosely translated means &#8220;The end depends upon the beginning.&#8221; The quotation is taken out of context from the Astronomica of Manilius. This is the great academic motto of the Phillips Exeter Academy (real) as well as the St. Benedict&#8217;s Academy for Boys (Hollywood fiction) in the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0283530\">The Emperor&#8217;s Club<\/a>. It is a great story about a teachers that strongly believes in good and right and put his strongest hopes onto a young son of a senator whom unfortunately disappoints his teacher by cheating. Being a university teacher myself, I feel strong sympathies for the situation presented in the movie and it really go to me. 10 stars to the movie The Emperor&#8217;s Club.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.imdb.com\/media\/imdb\/01\/I\/18\/26\/30m.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p>Finis Origine Pendet, The end depends upon the beginning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finis Origine Pendet, loosely translated means &#8220;The end depends upon the beginning.&#8221; The quotation is taken out of context from the Astronomica of Manilius. This is the great academic motto of the Phillips Exeter Academy (real) as well as the St. Benedict&#8217;s Academy for Boys (Hollywood fiction) in the movie The Emperor&#8217;s Club. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/04\/07\/finis_origine_pendet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finis Origine Pendet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}