{"id":174,"date":"2011-06-21T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T22:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-06-21T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T22:35:29","slug":"aphorism-of-the-day-how-we-rate-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/aphorism-of-the-day-how-we-rate-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Your #Aphorism of the Day: how we rate authors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Dr Samuel Johnson<\/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>While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. Dr Samuel Johnson Welcome to Zena\u2019s aphorism month! Read more about why I\u2019m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/aphorism-of-the-day-how-we-rate-authors\/\">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":[46,322],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-quotations","tag-aphorism","tag-johnson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}