{"id":855,"date":"2024-03-28T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/a-reason-why-we-need-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:00:53","slug":"a-reason-why-we-need-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/a-reason-why-we-need-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason Why We Need Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">You have heard it said, &quot;Take the bull by the horns.&quot; But I say unto you, &quot;Take the bull by the shovel.&quot;&#0160; Enjoy this <em>Substack<\/em> entry <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/why-we-need-philosophy?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">wherein<\/a> I take some journalistic bull by the shovel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have heard it said, &quot;Take the bull by the horns.&quot; But I say unto you, &quot;Take the bull by the shovel.&quot;&#0160; Enjoy this Substack entry wherein I take some journalistic bull by the shovel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,20,219,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-metaphilosophy","category-scientism","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}