{"id":676,"date":"2010-06-12T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2010-06-12T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:13:07","slug":"on-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"on experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I well know that, not being a literary man, certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably deride me with the allegation that I am a man without letters. Stupid fellows! Do they not know that I might reply as Marius did in answering the Roman patricians, by saying that they who adorn themselves with the labours of others, will not concede to me my very own: they will say that, not having learning, I will not properly speak of that which I wish to elucidate. But do they not know know that my subjects are to be better illustrated from experience than by yet more words? \u2014 experience which has been the mistress of all those who wrote well, and, thus as mistress, I will cite her in all cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I well know that, not being a literary man, certain presumptuous persons will think that they may reasonably deride me with the allegation that I am a man without letters. Stupid fellows! Do they not know that I might reply as Marius did in answering the Roman patricians, by saying that they who adorn themselves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;on experience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoteric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}