{"id":10350,"date":"2011-09-18T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/18\/experience\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:02:07","slug":"experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/18\/experience\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Experience&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The Mayo Clinic sent me a brochure containing the line, &quot;Most patients begin their experience at the outpatient clinic.&quot; Now I don&#39;t know about you, but when I seek medical attention it is not an experience I want but treatment. If I could get the treatment without the experience, so much the better.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Similarly, when I take the old buggy to Jiffy Lube it is not an automotive experience I am after but an oil change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In both cases one pays for work to be done on a physical thing, not for experiences to be induced in the mind of the owner of the physical thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The aestheticism of the &#39;60s and beyond, with its emphasis on doing things for the experience of doing them regardless of any real-world outcome positive or negative, is probably at the root of this overuse of &#0160;&#39;experience.&#39; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayo Clinic sent me a brochure containing the line, &quot;Most patients begin their experience at the outpatient clinic.&quot; Now I don&#39;t know about you, but when I seek medical attention it is not an experience I want but treatment. If I could get the treatment without the experience, so much the better.&#0160; Similarly, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/18\/experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Experience&#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":[69,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350","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=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}