{"id":11548,"date":"2010-06-05T16:26:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/word-of-the-day-ochlocracy\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:26:17","slug":"word-of-the-day-ochlocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/word-of-the-day-ochlocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: &#8216;Ochlocracy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From the Greek <em>ochlokratia<\/em>, from the Greek <em>ochlos<\/em> (mob) + <em>-kratia<\/em> (-cracy): government by the mob, mob rule. Example from an esteemed member of the MavPhil Commenter Corps: &quot;I just tell my students and anyone else I know not to read the Wikipedia article [Philosophy] except for a laugh. It&#39;s one of those areas where the ochlocratic nature of Wikipedia really comes a cropper.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In case anyone is unclear, and I was, &#39;to come a cropper&#39; means to fail badly, to get caught out, to fall. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Greek ochlokratia, from the Greek ochlos (mob) + -kratia (-cracy): government by the mob, mob rule. Example from an esteemed member of the MavPhil Commenter Corps: &quot;I just tell my students and anyone else I know not to read the Wikipedia article [Philosophy] except for a laugh. It&#39;s one of those areas where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/05\/word-of-the-day-ochlocracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: &#8216;Ochlocracy&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}