{"id":355,"date":"2006-07-19T13:51:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=355"},"modified":"2006-07-19T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:51:23","slug":"there-is-no-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"There is no &#8216;power&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Power is very rarely limited to the pure exercise of brute force&#8230;. The Roman state bolstered its authority and legitimacy with the trappings of ceremonial &#8211; cloaking the actualities of power beneath a display of wealth, the sanction of tradition, and the spectacle of insuperable resources&#8230;.Power is a far more complex and mysterious quality than any apparently simple manifestation of it would appear. It is as much a matter of impression, of theatre, of persuading those over whom authority is wielded to collude in their subjugation. Insofar as power is a matter of presentation, its cultural currency in antiquity (and still today) was the creation, manipulation, and display of images.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>J\u00e1s Elsner in his recent book <em>Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Power is very rarely limited to the pure exercise of brute force&#8230;. The Roman state bolstered its authority and legitimacy with the trappings of ceremonial &#8211; cloaking the actualities of power beneath a display of wealth, the sanction of tradition, and the spectacle of insuperable resources&#8230;.Power is a far more complex and mysterious quality than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}