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  "path": "/2026-05-31-Thermopylae/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-31T07:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Authors note: I originally wrote this poem in the summer of 2013 where I was very inspired by Thomas Babbington Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome and thinking deeply about virtue and historiography. I recently rediscovered this while going through my old computer and wanted to put it up before LLMs...",
  "title": "Thermopylae"
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