{"id":854,"date":"2010-11-07T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2010-11-07T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T02:56:39","slug":"on-being-right-or-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/on-being-right-or-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Right or Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Twitter and Facebook have cut down on my blog output. \u00c2\u00a0I feel like my friends and acquaintances are well aware of what I&#8217;m thinking and doing, and the urge to blog is easily overwhelmed by the day-to-day\u00c2\u00a0priorities. \u00c2\u00a0I tend to blog only when my thoughts are too long to do justice in Twitter. \u00c2\u00a0Today, the thought is 29 characters too long:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little ironies is that, over the long run, people who are willing to admit they could be wrong turn out to be wrong a lot less often than people who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/06\/when-house-effects-become-bias\/\">Nate Silver<\/a>, demonstrating again that he&#8217;s got the best blog on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Twitter and Facebook have cut down on my blog output. \u00c2\u00a0I feel like my friends and acquaintances are well aware of what I&#8217;m thinking and doing, and the urge to blog is easily overwhelmed by the day-to-day\u00c2\u00a0priorities. \u00c2\u00a0I tend to blog only when my thoughts are too long to do justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}