{"id":170,"date":"2011-06-26T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2011-06-26T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T22:35:38","slug":"aphorism-of-the-day-persuasive-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/aphorism-of-the-day-persuasive-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Your #Aphorism of the Day: persuasive reasons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Blaise Pascal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to Zena\u2019s aphorism month! Read more about why I\u2019m celebrating  aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about  aphorisms): <a title=\"Gotta love a good #aphorism \u2013 they\u2019re literary genius for the time-poor!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=646\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal Welcome to Zena\u2019s aphorism month! Read more about why I\u2019m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/aphorism-of-the-day-persuasive-reasons\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,473],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-quotations","tag-aphorism","tag-pascal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}