{"id":1834,"date":"2012-11-28T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:44:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:44:22","slug":"analects-of-the-core-168-the-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/11\/28\/analects-of-the-core-168-the-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Homer on ruling the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s analect from <em>Paradise Lost <\/em>can be contrasted with today&#8217;s choice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By god, I\u2019d rather slave on earth for another man\u2014\u2028some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive\u2014\u2028than rule down here over all the breathless dead. (<strong><em>The Odyssey<\/em><\/strong><em>,<strong> <\/strong><\/em>11.556-8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s analect from Paradise Lost can be contrasted with today&#8217;s choice: By god, I\u2019d rather slave on earth for another man\u2014\u2028some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive\u2014\u2028than rule down here over all the breathless dead. (The Odyssey, 11.556-8) &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,2534,4151,1],"tags":[37407,5776,37404,37408,37406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"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\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}