{"id":9830,"date":"2012-03-25T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/regalia\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T14:19:07","slug":"regalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/regalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Regalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Regalia, as its etymology suggests (from L. <em>rex, regis<\/em>), are the king&#39;s insignia. By a natural extension, anyone&#39;s insignia, colors, banners. We like to fly the colors to the point of identifying with them. We identify with flags and labels and logos and certain words. There is a stupid satisfaction one gets from flaunting logos like &#39;Trek&#39; and &#39;Jeep.&#39; See? Me ride Trek bike. Just like Lance Armstrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The name of my Bell bicycle helmet model is &#39;Paradox.&#39; That clinched the purchase for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Philosophers hate a contradiction but love a paradox.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regalia, as its etymology suggests (from L. rex, regis), are the king&#39;s insignia. By a natural extension, anyone&#39;s insignia, colors, banners. We like to fly the colors to the point of identifying with them. We identify with flags and labels and logos and certain words. There is a stupid satisfaction one gets from flaunting logos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/regalia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Regalia&#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":[39,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}