{"id":6923,"date":"2015-10-16T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/16\/on-natural-science\/"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T12:38:07","slug":"on-natural-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/16\/on-natural-science\/","title":{"rendered":"On Natural Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Natural science pursued for its own sake is a magnificent and noble thing.&#0160; But in the end one ought to consider whether it is but a high-minded diversion, an extremely &#0160;high-level form of Pascalian <em>divertissement<\/em>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural science pursued for its own sake is a magnificent and noble thing.&#0160; But in the end one ought to consider whether it is but a high-minded diversion, an extremely &#0160;high-level form of Pascalian divertissement.&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,287,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-pascal","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","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=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}