{"id":10267,"date":"2011-10-18T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/is-philosophy-the-most-practical-major\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T10:46:00","slug":"is-philosophy-the-most-practical-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/is-philosophy-the-most-practical-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Philosophy the Most Practical Major?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2011\/10\/is-philosophy-the-most-practical-major\/246763\/\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160;Via the indefatigable&#0160;Dave Lull.&#0160; Here is my little tribute to&#0160;Lull from earlier this year:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you are a blogger, then perhaps you too have been the recipient of his terse emails informing one of this or that blogworthy tidbit. Who is this Dave Lull guy anyway? Patrick Kurp of <a href=\"http:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Anecdotal Evidence<\/a> provides <a href=\"http:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/happy-birthday-dave.html\" target=\"_self\">an answer<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As Pascal said of God (no blasphemy intended) Dave is the circle whose center is everywhere in the blogosphere and whose circumference is nowhere. He is a blogless unmoved mover. He is the lubricant that greases the machinery of half the online universe worth reading. He is copy editor, auxiliary conscience and friend. He is, in short, the OWL \u2013 Omnipresent Wisconsin Librarian.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For other tributes to the ever-helpful Lull see <a href=\"http:\/\/petrona.typepad.com\/petrona\/2008\/11\/happy-birthday-to-our-favourite-librarian.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. Live long, Dave, and grease on!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Addendum<\/em> (20 October, 5:20 AM):&#0160; I just corrected a typo.&#0160; I had &#39;indefagitable&#39; instead of indefatigable.&#39;&#0160; Perhaps I was subsconsciously thinking that that one who is indefatigable cannot be fagged out.&#0160; Hence: indeFAGitable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here.&#0160;&#0160;Via the indefatigable&#0160;Dave Lull.&#0160; Here is my little tribute to&#0160;Lull from earlier this year: If you are a blogger, then perhaps you too have been the recipient of his terse emails informing one of this or that blogworthy tidbit. Who is this Dave Lull guy anyway? Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence provides an answer: As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/18\/is-philosophy-the-most-practical-major\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Philosophy the Most Practical Major?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}