{"id":11432,"date":"2010-07-27T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/don-colachos-aphorisms-2\/"},"modified":"2010-07-27T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:23:04","slug":"don-colachos-aphorisms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/don-colachos-aphorisms-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Colacho&#8217;s Aphorisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Ah, the webbiness of the Web!&#0160; I used an aphorism of Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez D\u00e1vila three days ago for purposes of logical analysis and received a comment from one &#39;Stephen&#39; who is the proprietor of an interesting site devoted to translations of Don Colacho&#39;s aphorisms.&#0160; The blog is appropriately entitled <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/don-colacho.blogspot.com\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Don Colacho&#39;s Aphorisms.<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160; Please do check it out if you are a lover of aphorisms.&#0160; His are even better than <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/aphorisms\/\">mine<\/a>, if I do say so myself.&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/don-colacho.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/1533.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> is an example:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">\u201cSocial\u201d is the adjective that serves as a pretext for all swindles.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Excellent! If I may be permitted to supply an example: social justice.<\/font><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Another good aphorist is Deogolwulf, proprietor of <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/curmudgeonjoy.blogspot.com\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The Joy of Curmudgeonry<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">.&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/curmudgeonjoy.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/fewtril-no275.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> is an example of one of his fewtrils:&#0160; &quot;The common man is never so clever as the politician says and never so stupid as the politician believes.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the webbiness of the Web!&#0160; I used an aphorism of Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez D\u00e1vila three days ago for purposes of logical analysis and received a comment from one &#39;Stephen&#39; who is the proprietor of an interesting site devoted to translations of Don Colacho&#39;s aphorisms.&#0160; The blog is appropriately entitled Don Colacho&#39;s Aphorisms.&#0160; Please do check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/27\/don-colachos-aphorisms-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don Colacho&#8217;s Aphorisms&#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":[181,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432","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=11432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}