{"id":82,"date":"2007-11-03T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/11\/03\/cicero-on-mans-best-friend\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T22:12:00","slug":"cicero-on-mans-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/11\/cicero-on-mans-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicero on Man&#8217;s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As for dogs which mount faithful guard, fawn affectionately on their masters, show such detestation of strangers, exhibit an astonishing ability to pick up a scent, and show such enthusiasm for the hunt, what does all this denote except that they are bred for the benefit of the human race? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Cicero, <i>On the Nature of the Gods<\/i> Book II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for dogs which mount faithful guard, fawn affectionately on their masters, show such detestation of strangers, exhibit an astonishing ability to pick up a scent, and show such enthusiasm for the hunt, what does all this denote except that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/11\/cicero-on-mans-best-friend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40,62,60,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicero","category-greek","category-natural-philosophy","category-roman","category-the-gods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}