{"id":3819,"date":"2006-03-27T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:57:05","slug":"mental-ferment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3819","title":{"rendered":"Mental ferment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that happens when you&#8217;re lying in bed is that the normal constraints on mental processes get released &#8211; and lots of things that have been in the background come forward. One such was a long post that will come &#8211; probably after Easter &#8211; about &#8216;the structure of culture&#8217;, linking Wittgenstein, Girard and Pirsig. It&#8217;ll require a fair bit of work. Another is a thread on &#8216;am I wrong about Tesco?&#8217; &#8211; which I might write in a moment, if my energy is maintained.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,1740391,00.html\">this<\/a> is a useful piece, which expresses something accurate. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psybertron.org\/?p=1266\">Psybertron<\/a> is having an interesting conversation on this very subject at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that happens when you&#8217;re lying in bed is that the normal constraints on mental processes get released &#8211; and lots of things that have been in the background come forward. One such was a long post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-ZB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}