{"id":6596,"date":"2014-05-14T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2014-05-14T18:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:50:38","slug":"logic-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=6596","title":{"rendered":"Logic is truth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As for building detailed inferences on generalised or flimsy data,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m reminded of the Cairo tour guide who told his clients<br \/>\n&#8220;This particular pyramid is 5002 years old.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When asked how he could pin it down with such accuracy, he explained:<br \/>\n&#8220;When I started working here the year before last, I was told it was 5000 years old.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, I learned a new word today.<br \/>\n<strong>Sciolist<\/strong>: Knowing many things but knowing them badly.<br \/>\nNot sure if knowing that that makes me me feel smug or small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for building detailed inferences on generalised or flimsy data, I&#8217;m reminded of the Cairo tour guide who told his clients &#8220;This particular pyramid is 5002 years old.&#8221; When asked how he could pin it down with such accuracy, he explained: &#8220;When I started working here the year before last, I was told it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}