{"id":20410,"date":"2017-09-04T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=20410"},"modified":"2017-09-04T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:27:10","slug":"philosopher-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2017\/09\/philosopher-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosopher King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20411\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plato-762x1024.jpg?resize=762%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plato.jpg?resize=762%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 762w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plato.jpg?resize=71%2C96&amp;ssl=1 71w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plato.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plato.jpg?resize=768%2C1032&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plato.jpg?w=1072&amp;ssl=1 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><br \/>\nAs an infant, Prince Siddhartha, who later became Sakyamuni Buddha, was predicted to become either a universal monarch (wheel-turning king) or a universally enlightened one (Buddha). Looks like perfect spiritual-political philosopher-kings envisioned by Plato can never arise, as worldly politics and world-transcending spirituality do not mix well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an infant, Prince Siddhartha, who later became Sakyamuni Buddha, was predicted to become either a universal monarch (wheel-turning king)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-20410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-buddhahood","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}