{"id":24,"date":"2005-02-28T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kogblog.salticid.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2005-02-28T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T01:07:00","slug":"my-goal-to-be-the-most-moderate-person-in-the-whole-wide-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/2005\/02\/my-goal-to-be-the-most-moderate-person-in-the-whole-wide-world\/","title":{"rendered":"My goal: to be the most moderate person IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, googling on that yields nothing, though it seems like a very obvious joke. <\/p>\n<p>Mini-existential crisis&#8211;I wrote two new book blog entries, which took forever (maybe 45 minutes each) when they were forgettable books that I though deserved maybe a sentence each; I&#8217;ve been asked to do book reviews for a new newspaper &#038; don&#8217;t know if I want to\/ought to\/would regret saying no. How to balance wanting to try &#038; do everything with having the normal spacetime limitations? My coping strategy for most of my life has been to do a bit of what I most want to do at any given moment, then use denial and procrastination to avoid making decisions. Hmm&#8230;somehow that doesn&#8217;t seem to to turn out particularly well. Strange!<\/p>\n<p>I just finished <i>Animals in Translation<\/i> by Temple Grandin, which is such a remarkable, mindblowing, thought-provoking book that it made me think of the best books I&#8217;ve ever read so that I can put it on the list.<\/p>\n<p><b>Five Best\/Most Interesting\/Most Mind-blowing Books I&#8217;ve Ever Read (The Ones That Jump to Mind, At Least)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><i>Chance and Necessity<\/i>, Jacques Monod<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><i>A Pattern Language<\/i>, Christopher Alexander<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><i>Metamagical Themas<\/i>, Douglas Hofstadter<\/li>\n<li><i>On Liberty<\/i>, John Stuart Mill<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><i>Animals in Translation<\/i>, Temple Grandin<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my surprise, googling on that yields nothing, though it seems like a very obvious joke. Mini-existential crisis&#8211;I wrote two new book blog entries, which took forever (maybe 45 minutes each) when they were forgettable books that I though deserved maybe a sentence each; I&#8217;ve been asked to do book reviews for a new newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}