{"id":6935,"date":"2015-10-11T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/11\/he-who-hesitates-is-lost-3\/"},"modified":"2015-10-11T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T08:32:14","slug":"he-who-hesitates-is-lost-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/11\/he-who-hesitates-is-lost-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He Who Hesitates is Lost&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As you know,&#0160; Yogi Berra, master of the malapropism, died in September.&#0160; In the Berra spirit, I cooked up the following during last night&#39;s troubled sleep:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Said by me to Berra in the presence of Peter:&#0160; <em>He who hesitates is lost<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Berra:&#0160; You mean Peter?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">What is Berra failing to understand?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">(I would continue with this, but I am presently under assault by some nasty flu bug.&#0160; And last night&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/09\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-alcohol-tobacco-and-fire-arms.html\" target=\"_self\">whisky<\/a> cure did no good at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If I said to Wittgenstein, &quot;I feel like shit warmed-over,&quot; he would shoot back: &quot;You have no idea what shit feels like, fresh-cooked or warmed-over.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/02\/what-i-like-about-wittgenstein.html\" target=\"_self\">He was one serious dude<\/a>.&#0160;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know,&#0160; Yogi Berra, master of the malapropism, died in September.&#0160; In the Berra spirit, I cooked up the following during last night&#39;s troubled sleep: Said by me to Berra in the presence of Peter:&#0160; He who hesitates is lost. Berra:&#0160; You mean Peter? What is Berra failing to understand? (I would continue with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/11\/he-who-hesitates-is-lost-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;He Who Hesitates is Lost&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,6,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-language-matters","category-wittgenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}