{"id":11790,"date":"2010-03-02T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/02\/courtesy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:36:30","slug":"courtesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/02\/courtesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtesy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I suggest that we think of courtesy as a mean between rudeness and obsequiousness. The courteous are neither churls nor courtiers. This despite the etymology of &#39;courtesy.&#39; (As a separate post could argue, there is no such thing as the true meaning of a word, and even if there were, etymology would not guide us to it.) To put it crudely, so that even a contemporary can get the point: the courteous neither show, nor kiss, ass.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suggest that we think of courtesy as a mean between rudeness and obsequiousness. The courteous are neither churls nor courtiers. This despite the etymology of &#39;courtesy.&#39; (As a separate post could argue, there is no such thing as the true meaning of a word, and even if there were, etymology would not guide us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/02\/courtesy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Courtesy&#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":[69,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790","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=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}