{"id":6918,"date":"2014-06-15T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2014-06-15T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:57:14","slug":"never-debate-the-ignorant-in-front-of-the-uninformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/never-debate-the-ignorant-in-front-of-the-uninformed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Never debate the ignorant in front of the uninformed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Never debate the ignorant in front of the uninformed: the crowd can&#8217;t tell who won the argument&#8221;. Syrian Proverb<\/p>\n<p>(It makes so much sense but I wish I was aware of it before engaging Larry Summers.)<\/p>\n<p>(This is the first aphorism here that is not mine.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152274562763375&amp;id=13012333374\">&#8220;Never debate the ignorant in front of the&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Never debate the ignorant in front of the uninformed: the crowd can&#8217;t tell who won the argument&#8221;. Syrian Proverb (It makes so much sense but I wish I was aware of it before engaging Larry Summers.) (This is the first aphorism here that is not mine.) via &#8220;Never debate the ignorant in front of the&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-aphorisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}