{"id":25394,"date":"2014-12-31T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25394"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T11:04:32","slug":"radford-benjamin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/radford-benjamin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Radford, Benjamin (N)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Benjamin.Radford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25397\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Benjamin.Radford.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin.Radford\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Benjamin Radford <\/strong>is typical of today\u2019s Atlantis sceptics, who are happy to dismiss Plato\u2019s story as a morality tale<sup>(a)<\/sup>. I consider this rather glib, as it is so often overlooked that while the \u2018bad\u2019 Atlanteans were destroyed, the \u2018good\u2019 Athenians military were also dispatched. Not much of a reward for virtue! Over a century ago Radford would have been equally dismissive of Heinrich Schliemann\u2019s search for Troy. But then, I suppose that Radford, like so many others, is only interested in generating column inches!<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Radford is typical of today\u2019s Atlantis sceptics, who are happy to dismiss Plato\u2019s story as a morality tale(a). I consider this rather glib, as it is so often overlooked that while the \u2018bad\u2019 Atlanteans were destroyed, the \u2018good\u2019 Athenians military were also dispatched. Not much of a reward for virtue! Over a century ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}