{"id":767,"date":"2010-07-24T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-07-24T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:52:21","slug":"a-spartan-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"A Spartan First .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that we have a new Ephor.\u00a0 Those of you that have followed this blog from its beginning know that the Ephors of ancient Sparta, as I visualize them, were the sages of the community.\u00a0 They were bewhiskered, bald headed old men dressed in white robes, holding their staffs, standing in wisps of mist on a mountain top.\u00a0 Your were told that the propose of the blog is to enable you to try to use your will combined with the wisdom of the Ephors to save the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Let me assure you that the new Ephor, Rosa, has only one thing in common with that ancient visualization &#8230; <strong>SAGACITY! <\/strong>&#8230; Rosa is an engineering graduate from Cornell University.\u00a0 She is beautiful, multilingual, smart and a mom.\u00a0 And to my knowledge the first female Ephor in all history.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa has been publishing her articles on her own blog and will now publish her writings on <em>Order of the Ephors <\/em>simultaneously.\u00a0 I urge you to catch up on her work by clicking on &#8220;Rosa&#8217;s Reality Check&#8221; on the header of the main page and then follow her informed and timely work in the future for your own edification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that we have a new Ephor.\u00a0 Those of you that have followed this blog from its beginning know that the Ephors of ancient Sparta, as I visualize them, were the sages of the community.\u00a0 They were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}