{"id":1507,"date":"2018-05-18T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2022-01-08T21:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:09:58","slug":"idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8218;A most terrible thing has happened. The King of Yugoslavia has been assassinated.\u2019 \u2018Oh, dear!\u2019 she replied. \u2018Did you know him?\u2019 \u2018No,\u2019 I said. \u2018Then why,\u2019 she asked, \u2018do you think it\u2019s so terrible?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Her question made me remember that the word \u2018idiot\u2019 comes from a Greek root meaning private person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Rebecca West,\u00a0<em>Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,<\/em>\u00a0(London: <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Penguin Books<\/span>, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">1982), 2<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8218;A most terrible thing has happened. The King of Yugoslavia has been assassinated.\u2019 \u2018Oh, dear!\u2019 she replied. \u2018Did you know him?\u2019 \u2018No,\u2019 I said. \u2018Then why,\u2019 she asked, \u2018do you think it\u2019s so terrible?\u2019 Her question made me remember that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=1507\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}