{"id":2852,"date":"2020-10-26T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/why-write\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:39:45","slug":"why-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/10\/26\/why-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I write to know my own mind, to actualize my own mind, and to attract a few like-minded and contrary-minded people.&#0160; The like-minded lend support, and the contrary-minded \u2013 assuming that their criticisms are rationally based \u2013 allow me to test my ideas.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Dialectic is to the philosopher what experiment is to the scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write to know my own mind, to actualize my own mind, and to attract a few like-minded and contrary-minded people.&#0160; The like-minded lend support, and the contrary-minded \u2013 assuming that their criticisms are rationally based \u2013 allow me to test my ideas.&#0160; Dialectic is to the philosopher what experiment is to the scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-life-of-the-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","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=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}