{"id":16111,"date":"2021-11-04T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16111"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:09:02","slug":"words-seldom-seen-metis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=16111","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Metis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Metis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noun: (from the Greek) The knowledge that can come only from practical experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example: &#8220;The metis of the harbor pilot got the boat across the bar in the storm.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I first saw this word in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seeing-Like-State-Condition-Paperbacks-ebook\/dp\/B085CMNS8P\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1633461193&amp;sr=8-1\">Seeing Like a State by James C Scott<\/a>. Metis means an adaptable set of skills that are useful for solving multi-variable problems. Groups do not follow basic laws like physical objects. The outcomes of multivariable problems are subject to the rules of complexity not of physics. Metis can&#8217;t come from the top down. It is more than skill because it is adaptable to changing circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo is of another of the covered bridges near Newport, Oregon. There are three all of the same design and all painted with the same color paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metis Noun: (from the Greek) The knowledge that can come only from practical experience. Example: &#8220;The metis of the harbor pilot got the boat across the bar in the storm.&#8221; I first saw this word in Seeing Like a State by James C Scott. Metis means an adaptable set of skills that are useful for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16112,"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":[11,408],"tags":[1070,409],"class_list":["post-16111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-metis","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6CF3C6B6-3F51-49AB-8DDA-AFA333B4528E_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-4bR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16111","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=16111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16838,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16111\/revisions\/16838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}