{"id":13294,"date":"2019-06-15T05:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=13294"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T23:04:52","slug":"maxims-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=13294","title":{"rendered":"Maxims Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=13295\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13295\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=13295\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?resize=459%2C344\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?resize=250%2C188&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_10fa9.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>&#8220;Aphorisms lose their charm when explained.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>From <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Bed-Procrustes-Philosophical-Practical-Aphorisms-ebook\/dp\/B004C43F9S\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=4EYKO6NZ5MNC&amp;keywords=bed+of+procrustes&amp;qid=1560207446&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sprefix=Bed+of+Procrustes%2Cdigital-text%2C192&amp;sr=1-1\">The Bed of Procrustes<\/a> by Nassim Taleb<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Aphorisms are the same as Maxims. I hope that is not an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Photo with my iPhone at a glass exhibit at the <a href=\"https:\/\/smoca.org\/\">Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Aphorisms lose their charm when explained.&#8221; From The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[604,61,512,376],"class_list":["post-13294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says","tag-aphorisms","tag-maxim","tag-stoics","tag-taleb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}