{"id":51,"date":"2025-08-08T09:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/a-curious-use-of-essence\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:47:27","slug":"a-curious-use-of-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/a-curious-use-of-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Curious Use of &#8216;Essence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1953515251737186713\">J. K. Rowling<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Being a woman isn&#39;t an essence, it&#39;s a material, provable fact. I&#39;m not a female human being because society or history made me one, or because I picked the &#39;woman&#39; category on some metaphysical spreadsheet. I&#39;m a woman because I was born with the equipment to produce large gametes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. K. Rowling: Being a woman isn&#39;t an essence, it&#39;s a material, provable fact. I&#39;m not a female human being because society or history made me one, or because I picked the &#39;woman&#39; category on some metaphysical spreadsheet. I&#39;m a woman because I was born with the equipment to produce large gametes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,70,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-men-and-women","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}