{"id":594,"date":"2011-02-01T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=594"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:16:51","slug":"analects-of-the-core-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/01\/analects-of-the-core-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Machiavelli on reputation and hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Whoever examines in detail the actions of Severus, will find him to have been a very ferocious lion and an extremely astute fox, and will find him to have been feared and respected by all and not hated by the army; and will not be surprised that he, a new man, should have been able to hold so much power, since his great reputation defended him always from the hatred that his rapacity might have produced in the people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Machiavelli&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prince-Niccolo-Machiavelli\/dp\/0872203166\/\"><em>The Prince<\/em><\/a>, pg 101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoever examines in detail the actions of Severus, will find him to have been a very ferocious lion and an extremely astute fox, and will find him to have been feared and respected by all and not hated by the army; and will not be surprised that he, a new man, should have been able [&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":[3915,48450,3884,48449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594"}],"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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2987,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/2987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}