{"id":214,"date":"2012-05-20T20:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=214"},"modified":"2013-04-02T17:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T22:15:25","slug":"avarice-and-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/05\/20\/avarice-and-public-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Avarice and Public Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No vice, therefore, is more foul than avarice&#8230;.particularly among leading men and those who control public affairs.\u00a0 For to use public affairs for one&#8217;s profit is not only dishonourable, but criminal and wicked too&#8230;.There is nothing by which those in charge of public affairs can more easily endear themselves to the goodwill of the masses than by incorruptible abstemiousness.&#8221; Marcus Tullius Cicero, <em>On Duties <\/em>II. 77. eds. and trans. M.T. Griffin and E.M. Atkins (Cambridge 1991),\u00a0pp. 94-95.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this is really true.\u00a0 Do voters really want someone honest and trustworthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No vice, therefore, is more foul than avarice&#8230;.particularly among leading men and those who control public affairs.\u00a0 For to use public affairs for one&#8217;s profit is not only dishonourable, but criminal and wicked too&#8230;.There is nothing by which those in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/05\/20\/avarice-and-public-office\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avarice","category-cicero","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}