{"id":20398,"date":"2017-08-18T12:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=20398"},"modified":"2017-08-14T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:35:09","slug":"diagnoses-morals-and-antlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/diagnoses-morals-and-antlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnoses, Morals, and Antlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I found a book of fables and read two fables about harts. They both ended badly. In &#8220;The Hart in the Ox-Stall,&#8221; the hart hid from the hunter in an ox-stall. The hunter noticed its antlers sticking out of the straw and killed it, proving that &#8220;nothing escapes the master&#8217;s eye.&#8221; In &#8220;The Hart and the Hunter,&#8221; the hart deplored its legs for being less handsome than its antlers. Later, when it was running from a hunter on its legs, its antlers got tangled in a tree and it got killed. The moral was: &#8220;We often despise that which is most useful to us.&#8221; In general, the hart&#8217;s biggest problem was antlers. Or no, it wasn&#8217;t antlers at all, it was hunters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Elif Batuman, <em>The Idiot<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a book of fables and read two fables about harts. They both ended badly. In &#8220;The Hart in the Ox-Stall,&#8221; the hart hid from the hunter in an ox-stall. The hunter noticed its antlers sticking out of the straw and killed it, proving that &#8220;nothing escapes the master&#8217;s eye.&#8221; In &#8220;The Hart and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2965,2966,340],"class_list":["post-20398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-college-life","tag-naivety","tag-the-horror-of-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->