{"id":7737,"date":"2015-05-04T16:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T23:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:23:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T23:23:52","slug":"if-you-need-to-learn-argue-intelligently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/if-you-need-to-learn-argue-intelligently\/","title":{"rendered":"If you need to learn &#8220;argue intelligently&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you need to learn &#8220;argue intelligently&#8221;, you don&#8217;t have a real argument; if you need to &#8220;promote&#8221;, you don&#8217;t have anything to sell; if you need to network you don&#8217;t have anything to offer; if you need to prepare for a lecture, you don&#8217;t have anything to lecture about; and if you need to learn how to &#8220;improve your style&#8221; you don&#8217;t have anything to write about. Truth is direct; it screams and doesn&#8217;t meander.<br \/>\n[Please note the difference between NEED TO and WANT TO before commenting. Some commentators here have made mistakes.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152997695508375&amp;id=13012333374\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to learn &#8220;argue intelligently&#8221;, you don&#8217;t have a real argument; if you need to &#8220;promote&#8221;, you don&#8217;t have anything to sell; if you need to network you don&#8217;t have anything to offer; if you need to prepare for a lecture, you don&#8217;t have anything to lecture about; and if you need to [&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-7737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737","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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}