{"id":557,"date":"2019-04-19T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlibwwwcit.services.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/?p=557"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:32:36","slug":"material-of-the-week-catos-moral-distichs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/material-of-the-week-catos-moral-distichs\/","title":{"rendered":"Material of the Week: Cato&#8217;s Moral Distichs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 1735, Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/04\/Catos-Moral-Distichs-vertical.jpg\" alt=\"Cato's Moral Distichs title page\" class=\"wp-image-866\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cato&#8217;s Moral Distichs is a Puritanical text by James Logan. This <a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.brown.edu\/catalog\/b1810180\">edition<\/a>&nbsp;is probably the first English translation published in the colonies, and it was printed by Ben Franklin at his Philadelphia press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 1735, Philadelphia. Cato&#8217;s Moral Distichs is a Puritanical text by James Logan. This edition&nbsp;is probably the first English translation published in the colonies, and it was printed by Ben Franklin at his Philadelphia press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[86,37,69],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-material-of-the-week","tag-colonies","tag-history","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}