{"id":112,"date":"2013-08-19T21:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/brasiliana\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2013-08-19T21:21:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:21:03","slug":"raimundo-teixeira-mendes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/raimundo-teixeira-mendes\/","title":{"rendered":"Raimundo Teixeira Mendes (1855-1927)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raimundo Teixeira Mendes was born in Caxias, in the state of Maranh\u00e3o, on January 5, 1855. Brazilian philosopher and mathematician, he founded the Igreja and Apostolado Positivista with his brother-in-law Miguel Lemos in 1881. Teixeira Mendes is also credited with creating the national motto, \u201cOrder and Progress,\u201d as well as the Brazilian flag in which it appears, in 1889. Teixeira Mendes published numerous pamphlets to promote Positivism and support issues such as republicanism, labor laws, animal rights, the secularization of cemeteries, and the separation between Church and State. In1905, he assumed the leadership of the Igreja Positivista do Brasil, but did not abandon his title as vice-director until Lemos\u2019s death in 1917. Teixeira Mendes died in 1927 in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raimundo Teixeira Mendes was born in Caxias, in the state of Maranh\u00e3o, on January 5, 1855. Brazilian philosopher and mathematician, he founded the Igreja and Apostolado Positivista with his brother-in-law Miguel Lemos in 1881. Teixeira Mendes is also credited with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/raimundo-teixeira-mendes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/brasiliana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}