{"id":487,"date":"2010-12-07T13:59:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=487"},"modified":"2013-08-28T19:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:57:51","slug":"analects-of-the-core-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/12\/07\/analects-of-the-core-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Plato on democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Democracy&#8230;is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/quotes.liberty-tree.ca\/quote\/plato_quote_3067\">Plato<\/a>. Today&#8217;s analect, suggested by Sarah Cole (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12), addresses democracy, as does <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/12\/07\/from-a-cc101-debate-on-democracy\/\">today&#8217;s panel discussion in CC101<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy&#8230;is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. &#8211; Plato. Today&#8217;s analect, suggested by Sarah Cole (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12), addresses democracy, as does today&#8217;s panel discussion in CC101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3692,3689,4332,4218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}