{"id":707,"date":"2011-06-06T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2011-06-06T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T22:35:12","slug":"aphorism-of-the-day-science-is-right-to-thicken-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/aphorism-of-the-day-science-is-right-to-thicken-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Your #Aphorism of the Day: science is right to thicken the ice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Samuel Butler (II)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Welcome to Zena&#8217;s aphorism month! Read more about why I&#8217;m 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>If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong. Samuel Butler (II) Welcome to Zena&#8217;s\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/aphorism-of-the-day-science-is-right-to-thicken-the-ice\/\">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":[46,549],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-quotations","tag-aphorism","tag-samuel-butler-ii"],"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\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}