{"id":1917,"date":"2015-04-01T13:23:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:23:02","slug":"april-fools-day-all-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"April Fool&#8217;s Day = ALL Fools Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of April Fool\u2019s day aka All Fool\u2019s Day is generally attributed to;<\/p>\n<p>In Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury Tales (1392), the \u201cNun\u2019s Priest\u2019s Tale\u201d is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two.   The passage originally meant 32 days after March, i.e. 2 May.  Readers apparently misunderstood this line to mean &#8220;32 March&#8221;, i.e. 1 April.  And in Chaucer&#8217;s tale, on that day, the vain Rooster Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite quote about fools;<\/p>\n<p><em>Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2013Abraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>Two quotes about fools that directly apply to entrepreneurs;<\/p>\n<p><em>Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain &#8211; and most fools do<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Benjamin Franklin<\/p>\n<p><em>Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u2013\tSholom Aleichem<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them<\/em>\u201d \u2013 so get out there and go for it !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of April Fool\u2019s day aka All Fool\u2019s Day is generally attributed to; In Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury Tales (1392), the \u201cNun\u2019s Priest\u2019s Tale\u201d is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. The passage originally meant 32 days after March, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1917\">Continue reading <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":[7,1,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-general-business","category-holiday-messages","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}