{"id":6068,"date":"2018-12-05T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2018-12-05T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:41:21","slug":"on-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2018\/12\/05\/on-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Matrix&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and Plato&#8217;s allegory of the cave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2018\/12\/social-media-me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2018\/12\/social-media-me-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"social media me\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2018\/12\/social-media-me-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2018\/12\/social-media-me-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2018\/12\/social-media-me-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Here we see Professor Roochnik introducing Allen Speight&#8217;s lecture on Plato&#8217;s Republic&#8211; including, among other things, a comparison of The Allegory of the Cave to the film The Matrix. And who says core texts aren&#8217;t relevant? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and Plato&#8217;s allegory of the cave. Here we see Professor Roochnik introducing Allen Speight&#8217;s lecture on Plato&#8217;s Republic&#8211; including, among other things, a comparison of The Allegory of the Cave to the film The Matrix. And who says core texts aren&#8217;t relevant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068"}],"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\/6865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}