{"id":5311,"date":"2013-10-14T09:11:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T08:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:36:43","slug":"a-picture-and-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5311","title":{"rendered":"A picture and a thousand words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s lectionary reading: &#8220;Keep reminding God\u2019s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love words, they are my tools, my craft. Yet &#8211; being the good student of Wittgenstein that I am &#8211; I recognise their limitations. So often, where the right spirit is absent, the piling up of word upon word serves only to exasperate rather than elucidate. I believe it to be true that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind, and that the pen is mightier than the sword &#8211; and yet, it is also true that a picture is more powerful than a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p>To that end&#8230; <em>watch this space<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From yesterday&#8217;s lectionary reading: &#8220;Keep reminding God\u2019s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.&#8221; I love words, they are my tools, my craft. Yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5311\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apaatw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1nF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","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=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}