{"id":10291,"date":"2011-10-07T19:19:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/07\/surely\/"},"modified":"2011-10-07T19:19:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:19:30","slug":"surely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/07\/surely\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Surely&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A device of literary bluster.&#0160; When one is unsure about something, or sure about what one has no right to be sure about, one writes &#39;surely.&#39;&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/ocham.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/so-farewell-september.html\" target=\"_self\">Example<\/a>:&#0160; &quot;Vallicella links to Dinah Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/09\/so-long-september.html\">here<\/a>. But surely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YI7nixC_CNA\">Peggy Lee&#39;s version<\/a> is better. A voice like no other, and the little piano break at 1:13 is exquisite.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I confess to using &#39;surely and &#39;of course&#39; promiscuously.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A device of literary bluster.&#0160; When one is unsure about something, or sure about what one has no right to be sure about, one writes &#39;surely.&#39;&#0160; Example:&#0160; &quot;Vallicella links to Dinah Washington here. But surely Peggy Lee&#39;s version is better. A voice like no other, and the little piano break at 1:13 is exquisite.&quot; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/07\/surely\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Surely&#8217;&#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":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291","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=10291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}