{"id":4652,"date":"2005-10-30T17:28:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T17:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2005-10-30T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T17:28:45","slug":"republic_dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Republic Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful mashup of Plato&#8217;s Republic and Reservoir Dogs can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/afs\/athena.mit.edu\/user\/d\/r\/dryfoo\/www\/Funny-pages\/republic-dogs.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Thrasymachus is tied up in a chair. Socrates is brandishing a gun in his face]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thrasymachus:<\/strong> Don&#8217;t kill me, man!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Socrates:<\/strong> Are you finished, fucker?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thrasymachus:<\/strong> Look, look, man, you can have my ten yoke of oxen. My virgin daughters? My pomegranite orchard?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Socrates:<\/strong> You like pomegranites? Shit, motherfucker, I hear they&#8217;ve got a fuckin&#8217; all-you-can-eat special going on on pomegranites where you&#8217;re headed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thrasymachus:<\/strong> Don&#8217;t do it, Socrates. Be fair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Socrates:<\/strong> [Suddenly contemplative] Fair?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thrasymachus:<\/strong> [Sees an opportunity for survival] Yeah, fair&#8230; think about my wife and children &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Socrates:<\/strong> Would you say that to be fair is the same thing as to be just? [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/afs\/athena.mit.edu\/user\/d\/r\/dryfoo\/www\/Funny-pages\/republic-dogs.html\">Republic Dogs<\/a>] [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/10\/28\/platos_republic_meet.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If philosophy class had been like this maybe I wouldn&#8217;t have done so badly in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful mashup of Plato&#8217;s Republic and Reservoir Dogs can be found here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}