{"id":9831,"date":"2012-03-25T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/things-not-worth-knowing\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T14:05:49","slug":"things-not-worth-knowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/things-not-worth-knowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Not Worth Knowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One&#39;s own genealogy, for example. What does it matter who begat whom in one&#39;s line?&#0160; Most of us will discover the names and dates of&#0160;insignificant people who have left nothing behind but their names<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">and dates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Or is it just&#0160;a philosopher&#39;s prejudice to be concerned more with timeless universals than with temporal particulars? To thrill to the Thoreauvian admonition, &quot;Read not The Times, read the eternities&quot;?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One&#39;s own genealogy, for example. What does it matter who begat whom in one&#39;s line?&#0160; Most of us will discover the names and dates of&#0160;insignificant people who have left nothing behind but their namesand dates. Or is it just&#0160;a philosopher&#39;s prejudice to be concerned more with timeless universals than with temporal particulars? To thrill to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/things-not-worth-knowing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things Not Worth Knowing&#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":[353,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowledge","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}