{"id":1189,"date":"2013-10-15T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2013-10-14T23:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T06:43:45","slug":"missing-words-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/missing-words-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Words IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You hear people accusing their enemies of being <em>morally<\/em> or <em>intellectually bankrupt<\/em>, and they mean it <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bankrupt\">in the sense of<\/a> &quot;destitute of, or wholly lacking (something)&quot;, rather than the sense of financial insolvency. But I actually would like to see the insolvency metaphor: people should speak of <em>declaring intellectual bankruptcy<\/em> to mean &quot;I was wrong before; I won't try to defend my previous claims because I can't&quot; (in analogy to &quot;I won't try to pay my debts, because I can't&quot;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You hear people accusing their enemies of being morally or intellectually bankrupt, and they mean it in the sense of &quot;destitute of, or wholly lacking (something)&quot;, rather than the sense of financial insolvency. But I actually would like to see &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/missing-words-iv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}