{"id":361,"date":"2005-06-07T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2008-05-30T20:50:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T01:50:38","slug":"a-propos-of-nothing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"A propos of nothing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how many names of philosophers and theologians sound like someone choking or coughing?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kierkegaard (someone choking on a fish bone)<\/li>\n<li>Schleiermacher (someone coughing to clear their throat prior to speaking)<\/li>\n<li>Hegel (one of those deep, wheezing coughs you get with bronchitis)<\/li>\n<li>Kant (repeated, someone choking on crackers: &#8220;Kant&#8230; Kant&#8230; Kant!&#8230;&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Nietzsche (sounds like a baby choking on baby food; so does &#8220;Niebuhr&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Tillich (a sip of water going down the wrong way)<\/li>\n<li>Cox (kind of like a death rattle)<\/li>\n<li>Hartshorne (what the Robitussin people call &#8220;an unproductive cough&#8221;)<\/li>\n<p>I could go on. But I will spare you.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed how many names of philosophers and theologians sound like someone choking or coughing? Kierkegaard (someone choking on a fish bone) Schleiermacher (someone coughing to clear their throat prior to speaking) Hegel (one of those deep, wheezing coughs you get with bronchitis) Kant (repeated, someone choking on crackers: &#8220;Kant&#8230; Kant&#8230; Kant!&#8230;&#8221;) Nietzsche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","tag-charles-hartshorne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}