{"id":1822,"date":"2022-10-17T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/17\/it-is-410-a-d\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T15:37:12","slug":"it-is-410-a-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/17\/it-is-410-a-d\/","title":{"rendered":"It is 410 A. D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Alaric is sacking Rome. An obscure Roman philosopher&#0160; is penning an agenda for the salvation of the republic. His writings are lost to history. In any case, too little, too late. Will we share his fate?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Three years after the Visigoth invasion, a Christian Platonist and mystic in North Africa puts pen to paper. As Rome goes under, and night falls, the Owl of Minerva rises in the pages of <em>The City of God<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If St. Augustine could see us now he might remark that while the pagan gods failed Rome, we failed the true God when we began worshipping idols.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02a2eed9d78d200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sack_of_Rome_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02a2eed9d78d200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02a2eed9d78d200d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Sack_of_Rome_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Joseph-N\u00f6el Sylvestre\u2019s 1890 Painting Depicting the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhistory.org\/How_Was_Alaric_Able_to_Sack_Rome_in_AD_410\">Sack of Rome<\/a> by the Visigoths in AD 410.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaric is sacking Rome. An obscure Roman philosopher&#0160; is penning an agenda for the salvation of the republic. His writings are lost to history. In any case, too little, too late. Will we share his fate? Three years after the Visigoth invasion, a Christian Platonist and mystic in North Africa puts pen to paper. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/10\/17\/it-is-410-a-d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It is 410 A. D.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,199,514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-history","category-parables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}