{"id":3245,"date":"2009-10-07T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2009-09-26T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T22:16:57","slug":"ysac-vol-447-does-this-make-mickey-the-philosopher-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=3245","title":{"rendered":"YSaC, Vol. 447: Does this make Mickey the philosopher king?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Can of Plato toys! &#8211; $3<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Lots of different little plato toys!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3246\" title=\"447a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/447a.jpg\" alt=\"447a\" width=\"160\" height=\"210\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3247\" title=\"447b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/447b.jpg\" alt=\"447b\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plato toys! Hooray! Finally, a way to teach children about one of the world&#8217;s greatest philosophers!<\/p>\n<p>The toys obviously represent Plato&#8217;s virtues: justice, wisdom, courage, and moderation. (I&#8217;m going to guess that the dog doesn&#8217;t represent wisdom &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t look too bright.)<\/p>\n<p>That would mean that the tin is Plato&#8217;s cave &#8212; which is particularly <em>apropos<\/em>, given that the point of Plato&#8217;s cave allegory is that the world of sensible objects is impermanent; what&#8217;s more impermanent than Play-Doh? (Unless you leave it out and let it harden.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the submission, pointyjess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can of Plato toys! &#8211; $3 Lots of different little plato toys! Plato toys! Hooray! Finally, a way to teach children about one of the world&#8217;s greatest philosophers! The toys obviously represent Plato&#8217;s virtues: justice, wisdom, courage, and moderation. (I&#8217;m going to guess that the dog doesn&#8217;t represent wisdom &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t look too bright.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[25,7],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-toys","tag-maybe-its-just-me","tag-speeling-prolbems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3250,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}