{"id":34756,"date":"2017-12-27T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34756"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:42:55","slug":"qotd-psychology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/27\/qotd-psychology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Psychology is nothing at all like a science and those who practice it are nothing at all like scientists. Mostly they&#8217;re liberals. No two shrinks ever agree on a diagnosis, and official definitions of various mental illnesses are a grammatical and logical laugh riot. The great truth of life is that understanding character is an art, best left to master novelists and story-tellers. <\/p>\n<p>L. Neil Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2016\/tle871-20160508-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Why the Left-Wing Seems Insane (Mostly Because They Are)&#8221;, <em>Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2016-05-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychology is nothing at all like a science and those who practice it are nothing at all like scientists. Mostly they&#8217;re liberals. No two shrinks ever agree on a diagnosis, and official definitions of various mental illnesses are a grammatical and logical laugh riot. The great truth of life is that understanding character is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[66,57,41],"tags":[1382,906,139],"class_list":["post-34756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-lneilsmith","tag-mentalhealth","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-92A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756","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=34756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58450,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34756\/revisions\/58450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}