{"id":48,"date":"2005-08-24T23:42:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T03:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-08-24T23:42:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T03:42:58","slug":"macaulay-on-plato-and-socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Macaulay On Plato And Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I am now deep in Plato, and intend to go right through all his works. His genius is above praise. Even where he is most absurd,&#8211;as, for example, in the Cratylus,&#8211;he shows an acuteness, and an expanse of intellect, which is quite a phenomenon by itself. The character of Socrates does not rise upon me. The more I read about him, the less I wonder that they poisoned him. If he had treated me as he is said to have treated Protagoras, Hippias, and Gorgias, I could never have forgiven him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">George Otto Trevelyan, <em>The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay<\/em>, i.403.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now deep in Plato, and intend to go right through all his works. His genius is above praise. Even where he is most absurd,&#8211;as, for example, in the Cratylus,&#8211;he shows an acuteness, and an expanse of intellect, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=48\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nachleben","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}