{"id":169,"date":"2010-09-30T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:16:54","slug":"analects-of-the-core-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/30\/analects-of-the-core-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Machiavelli on being feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211; Niccolo Machiavelli, in Chapter XVII of <em>The Prince. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"450\" width=\"350\" alt=\"Machiavelli\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/10\/94127-004-34dfe7f5.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/10\/94127-004-34dfe7f5.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/10\/94127-004-34dfe7f5-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NB: A pundit writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/09\/29\/president-obama-ignored-machiavellis-advice-on-religion\/\">Politics Daily<\/a> criticized President Obama by pointing out his failure to adhere to Machiavelli&#8217;s advice in being feared and loved. Conclusion: what Machiavelli wrote 500 years ago still has relevance today, demonstrating the continuing value of a Core education!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. &#8211; Niccolo Machiavelli, in Chapter XVII of The Prince. NB: A pundit writing at Politics Daily criticized President Obama by pointing out his failure to adhere to Machiavelli&#8217;s advice in being feared and loved. Conclusion: what Machiavelli wrote 500 years ago still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3837,3884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}