{"id":3168,"date":"2020-04-27T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/plague-in-an-ancient-city\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T09:53:58","slug":"plague-in-an-ancient-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/plague-in-an-ancient-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Plague in an Ancient City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plague in an Ancient City\" class=\"image_large \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/img\/r\/p\/750x750\/12032.jpg?v=1584839830\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/plague\/\">Plague<\/a> in an Ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/city\/\">City<\/a>&quot; by Michiel Sweerts (1618-1664 AD) is believed to depict the Plague of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/Athens\/\">Athens<\/a> (430-427 BC). Oil on canvas. Painted c. 1652-1654 AD. 118.7 cm (46.7 in) x 170.8 cm (67.2 in). (Courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art) <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Now read the outstanding essay by Victor Davis Hanson, <a href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/issues\/2020\/5\/the-scab-the-wound-beneath\">The Scab and the Wound Beneath<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Plague in an Ancient City&quot; by Michiel Sweerts (1618-1664 AD) is believed to depict the Plague of Athens (430-427 BC). Oil on canvas. Painted c. 1652-1654 AD. 118.7 cm (46.7 in) x 170.8 cm (67.2 in). (Courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Now read the outstanding essay by Victor Davis Hanson, The Scab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/plague-in-an-ancient-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plague in an Ancient City&#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":[412,199,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-aesthetics","category-history","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","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=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}