{"id":63,"date":"2016-09-07T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:10:55","slug":"63-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/authors\/63-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca (the Younger)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sometime in the spring of the year 59, the emperor Nero decided to murder his mother. As you can imagine, the two were not on good terms. In a gesture designed to appear conciliatory, Nero invited his mother, Agrippina, to join him at a festival in Baiae, a resort town near present-day Naples&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An extract from the <em>New Yorker:<\/em> <strong>Ho<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/02\/02\/stoic-2\" target=\"_blank\">w Seneca became the first philosopher-fixer<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Or how Seneca wrote a speech for Nero excusing his murder of his mother via collapsible boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime in the spring of the year 59, the emperor Nero decided to murder his mother. As you can imagine, the two were not on good terms. In a gesture designed to appear conciliatory, Nero invited his mother, Agrippina, to join him at a festival in Baiae, a resort town near present-day Naples&#8230; An extract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/68"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/artsonemcelduff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}