{"id":11270,"date":"2010-09-30T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/30\/armor-against-superlatives\/"},"modified":"2010-09-30T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:57:26","slug":"armor-against-superlatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/30\/armor-against-superlatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Armor Against Superlatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Howard Fast, <em>Being Red: A Memoir<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, 1990), pp.&#0160; 98-99:<\/p>\n<p>\t As we circled over Casablanca for landing, I saw below an enormous<br \/>\t swimming pool or reservoir. I turned to the man sitting next to me,<br \/>\t a grizzled old army colonel, and said to him, &quot;That has to be the<br \/>\t biggest swimming pool in the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t &quot;The second biggest,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\t &quot;And where&#39;s the biggest?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t &quot;Sonny,&quot; he said to me, &quot;whatever it is, wherever it is, there&#39;s<br \/>\t something bigger or something better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\t That stayed with me &#8212; one of several observations that cut into me<br \/>\t and stayed &#8212; and I passed it on to my children as armor against<br \/>\t superlatives.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Fast, Being Red: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin, 1990), pp.&#0160; 98-99: As we circled over Casablanca for landing, I saw below an enormous swimming pool or reservoir. I turned to the man sitting next to me, a grizzled old army colonel, and said to him, &quot;That has to be the biggest swimming pool in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/30\/armor-against-superlatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Armor Against Superlatives&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270","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=11270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}