{"id":2315,"date":"2012-08-10T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/10\/if-the-dogs-no-longer-guarded-the-sheep-he\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:57","slug":"if-the-dogs-no-longer-guarded-the-sheep-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/10\/if-the-dogs-no-longer-guarded-the-sheep-he\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>If the dogs no longer guarded the sheep, he observes, they would be taken by the wolves (again, at once the closest ancestors and the fiercest enemies of the dogs). \u201cIn denying us the bones,\u201d the dogs protest, \u201cyou will lose them along with the meat.\u201d We, in other words, eat the beasts of the field together, and it is this arrangement that keeps us alive, and that gives shape and meaning to the pronoun in the first-person plural.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jehsmith.com\/1\/2009\/10\/ecce-canis-1.html\">Ecce Canis &#8211; Justin Erik Halld\u00f3r Smith<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fantastic article on the coevolution of dogs and humans, and its philosophical implications.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the dogs no longer guarded the sheep, he observes, they would be taken by the wolves (again, at once the closest ancestors and the fiercest enemies of the dogs). \u201cIn denying us the bones,\u201d the dogs protest, \u201cyou will lose them along with the meat.\u201d We, in other words, eat the beasts of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/08\/10\/if-the-dogs-no-longer-guarded-the-sheep-he\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[925],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-animals","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}