{"id":1137,"date":"2007-03-16T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T16:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:18:43","slug":"1133-of-heroes-of-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"[1133] Of heroes of Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2000 years ago on this day, Ides of March, Brutus along with several Roman senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death, in hope to prevent Rome, a republic, from falling into authoritarianism. The irony is, of course, the act, which was done to preserve democracy, only accelerated Rome&#8217;s journey to dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is the hero here?<\/p>\n<p>It would depend on how one look at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Intention-wise, Brutus and the senators would be the heroes. Action-wise, there would be no heroes. Morally, a great dilemma; kill and preserve democracy, let live and kill democracy.<\/p>\n<p>It is a tragedy, no more, no less, even if it is a false dilemma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2000 years ago on this day, Ides of March, Brutus along with several Roman senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death, in hope to prevent Rome, a republic, from falling into authoritarianism. The irony is, of course, the act, which was done to preserve democracy, only accelerated Rome&#8217;s journey to dictatorship. So, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[907,231,905,906],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-heritage","tag-brutus","tag-democracy","tag-ides-of-march","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}