{"id":653,"date":"2006-09-05T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T13:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/05\/qotd-2\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T17:08:51","slug":"qotd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/qotd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to be so short with you, but you are making as much sense as someone who asserts that World War II began when Delaware attacked Batman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\"> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Nielsen_Hayden\">PNH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am likely going to use that, or a simple variant thereof, in some future discussion where someone is starting from completely, objectively, wrong premises.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Cowardly caveat: Note that this is not me saying Patrick is right to be &#8220;so short&#8221; with someone, or that any particular discussion couldn&#8217;t be made more useful with a lot more tact or gentle persuasion,  just that I liked the turn of phrase and intend to use it.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to be so short with you, but you are making as much sense as someone who asserts that World War II began when Delaware attacked Batman.&#8221; &#8212; PNH I am likely going to use that, or a simple variant thereof, in some future discussion where someone is starting from completely, objectively, wrong premises. (Cowardly caveat: Note that this&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/qotd-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-ax","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}