{"id":4969,"date":"2011-09-23T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:53:24","slug":"spiritual-superlatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Superlatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superlatives are claims to the highest, fastest, largest, oldest etc.<\/p>\n<p>We have had a joke for many years about a <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/bronze-buddhas\"><strong>Bronze Buddha<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 If you define the group sharply enough anything is the best at something.\u00a0 I am &#8220;Pasadena&#8217;s oldest man born in Coventry, England who had a factory in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"IMG_3155\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/6175027261\/img_3155.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6175\/6175027261_a84fb7d481_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"IMG_3155\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our recent trip to Israel we noticed that most superlatives about spiritual things don&#8217;t work with the &#8220;est&#8221; suffix.\u00a0 You have to use &#8220;most&#8221;.\u00a0 For instance &#8220;most spiritual&#8221; is correct not &#8220;spiritualest&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;Jewishest&#8221; is wrong &#8220;most Jewish&#8221; is right.<\/p>\n<p>By the way who is the worlds most spiritual man? Hint: see picture above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superlatives are claims to the highest, fastest, largest, oldest etc. We have had a joke for many years about a Bronze Buddha.\u00a0 If you define the group sharply enough anything is the best at something.\u00a0 I am &#8220;Pasadena&#8217;s oldest man born in Coventry, England who had a factory in Mexico. On our recent trip to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[69,5,19],"tags":[317,129],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-simon-says","category-travel","tag-israel","tag-superlatives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1i9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","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=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}