{"id":6987,"date":"2014-07-09T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:50:43","slug":"a-wise-man-points-the-way-the-idiot-will-remain-fixated-on-his-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/a-wise-man-points-the-way-the-idiot-will-remain-fixated-on-his-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A wise man points the way, the idiot will remain fixated on his finger.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;A wise man points the way, the idiot will remain fixated on his finger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Louis Rheault, on this site.<\/p>\n<p>(J-L was commenting on how people in general interpret aphorisms).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152324121083375&amp;id=13012333374\">&#8220;A wise man points the way, the idiot will&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A wise man points the way, the idiot will remain fixated on his finger.&#8221; Jean-Louis Rheault, on this site. (J-L was commenting on how people in general interpret aphorisms). via &#8220;A wise man points the way, the idiot will&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[816,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-2","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","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=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6989,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions\/6989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}