{"id":22643,"date":"2014-05-31T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22643"},"modified":"2014-05-30T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T01:39:56","slug":"qotd-clear-your-mind-of-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/qotd-clear-your-mind-of-cant\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Clear your mind of cant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>My dear friend, clear your <em>mind<\/em> of cant. You may <em>talk<\/em> as other people do: you may say to a man, \u2018Sir, I am your most humble servant.\u2019 You are <em>not<\/em> his most humble servant\u2026.You tell a man, \u2018I am sorry you had such bad weather the last day of your journey, and were so much wet.\u2019 You don\u2019t care six-pence whether he was wet or dry. You may <em>talk<\/em> in this manner; it is a mode of talking in society: but don\u2019t <em>think<\/em> foolishly.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Samuel Johnson to James Boswell on May 15th, 1783. (quoted by John Derbyshire in &#8220;A Whining Pretension to Goodness&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/a_whining_pretension_to_goodness_john_derbyshire\/print#axzz2hxHVXdRg\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2013-10-17) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, \u2018Sir, I am your most humble servant.\u2019 You are not his most humble servant\u2026.You tell a man, \u2018I am sorry you had such bad weather the last day of your journey, and were so [&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,"_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":""},"categories":[4,41],"tags":[262,139],"class_list":["post-22643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Td","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22644,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22643\/revisions\/22644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}