{"id":21198,"date":"2026-07-08T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21198"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:51:24","slug":"keeping-an-open-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=21198","title":{"rendered":"Keeping an Open Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" data-attachment-id=\"21185\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=21185\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?fit=1300%2C1950&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1300,1950\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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;1780064568&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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"801782568.836837\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?fit=700%2C1050&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?resize=700%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21185\" style=\"width:448px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?resize=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?resize=150%2C225&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?w=1300&amp;ssl=1 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Terry Pratchett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Painting by Roy Lichtenstein in the collection at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. This is the postcard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terry Pratchett was the creator of Disc World one of the greatest tongue in cheek science fiction series ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.\u201d Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","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":[402,8],"tags":[61,1626,1625],"class_list":["post-21198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-weekly-maxim","tag-maxim","tag-open-mind","tag-terry-pratchett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/801782568.836837.jpg?fit=1300%2C1950&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5vU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198","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=21198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21199,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198\/revisions\/21199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}