{"id":896,"date":"2012-04-11T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T04:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-04-11T22:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T04:24:28","slug":"platos-allegory-of-the-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/platos-allegory-of-the-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient Greek philosopher Plato lived about 400 years BC and is well known for his many contributions to modern thought. But did you know that he wrote about modern mass media thousands of years before they existed? Watch this short video on YouTube and see if you can identify the modern mass medium that is depicted by this allegory.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM]<\/p>\n<p>For more about the making of the short film, visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/platosallegory.com\/BehindTheScenes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient Greek philosopher Plato lived about 400 years BC and is well known for his many contributions to modern thought. But did you know that he wrote about modern mass media thousands of years before they existed? Watch this short video on YouTube and see if you can identify the modern mass medium that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/platos-allegory-of-the-cave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plato&#8217;s Allegory of the Cave&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}