{"id":3816,"date":"2010-03-12T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2010-03-13T00:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T05:35:20","slug":"esse-est-percipi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3816","title":{"rendered":"Esse est percipi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4410343272\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4059\/4410343272_eca6d85058.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I once wrote the following mock-horoscope:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Philosopher Bishop Berkeley once claimed that all material objects\u00e2\u20ac\u201dindeed, all of space and time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare merely illusions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto which the famous critic Samuel Johnson remarked, &#8220;I refute it thus!&#8221; and promptly smashed Berkeley&#8217;s head against a nearby rock. We think there&#8217;s a moral in that for all of us.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Which I bring up only because my Forgotten English desk calendar informs me that today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Berkeley\">George Berkeley<\/a>&#8216;s birthday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">You know, if not for that, and the fact that today was Friday, I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d have anything to say about it at all.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once wrote the following mock-horoscope: Philosopher Bishop Berkeley once claimed that all material objects\u00e2\u20ac\u201dindeed, all of space and time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare merely illusions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto which the famous critic Samuel Johnson remarked, &#8220;I refute it thus!&#8221; and promptly smashed Berkeley&#8217;s head against a nearby rock. We think there&#8217;s a moral in that for all of us. Which I &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3816\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[92,28],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}