{"id":7394,"date":"2014-12-25T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2014-12-25T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T20:07:41","slug":"merry-christmas-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/merry-christmas-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/nntalebChristmas2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-7396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/nntalebChristmas2014.jpg\" alt=\"Nassim Taleb Christmas 2014\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/nntalebChristmas2014.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/nntalebChristmas2014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/..\/media\/nntalebChristmas2014-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Merry Christmas to all!<\/p>\n<p>In the pre-monotheistic ancient Mediterranean tradition, people shared holidays and festivals (along with gods and shrines), a tradition still found in the Levant (in spite of recent acure mono-monotheism).<\/p>\n<p>PS- Just figured out that the ancient Greeks ate meat only on festivals and special occasions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/13012333374\/photos\/a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374\/10152690924548375\/?type=1\">Timeline Photos &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to all! In the pre-monotheistic ancient Mediterranean tradition, people shared holidays and festivals (along with gods and shrines), a tradition still found in the Levant (in spite of recent acure mono-monotheism). PS- Just figured out that the ancient Greeks ate meat only on festivals and special occasions. via Timeline Photos &#8211; Nassim Nicholas [&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":[],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","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=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}