{"id":5835,"date":"2012-02-07T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2012-02-07T16:54:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:54:48","slug":"remember-everyones-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5835","title":{"rendered":"Remember everybody&#8217;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/07\/146541242\/ancient-roman-text-offers-tips-on-winning-elections\">interview<\/a> with the translator of the letter of advice given to Cicero by his brother before he embarked on a political campaign for the Roman consulship.<\/p>\n<p>I once clipped an article on how Julius Caesar went about campaigning in ancient Rome. He sort of did it like a Hollywood star walking through town with his &#8220;posse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I read the Anthony Everitt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cicero-Times-Romes-Greatest-Politician\/dp\/037575895X\">biography<\/a> about Cicero I don&#8217;t recall reading about his brother&#8217;s advice on getting elected to a Roman consulship. Apparently, politics has changed very little over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has an interview with the translator of the letter of advice given to Cicero by his brother before he embarked on a political&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5835"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5846,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5835\/revisions\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}