{"id":2,"date":"2007-01-09T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-03-19T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:34:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this weblog is to record things I learn as they happen, momentous or trivial, lest they flit away like evanescent butterflies.  I don&#8217;t like to lose things. I particularly don&#8217;t like to lose knowledge or skills. And for you, dear reader, there are two possible benefits: you may also learn something that you didn&#8217;t previously know &#8211; or, if I relate something that you&#8217;ve already encountered or acquired, you may revel in the warm blush of your superiority. Win\/win!<\/p>\n<p>And why focus on the acquisition of new knowledge and information?  Well, as Eleanor Roosevelt put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I would live, I will therefore learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this weblog is to record things I learn as they happen, momentous or trivial, lest they flit away like evanescent butterflies. I don&#8217;t like to lose things. I particularly don&#8217;t like to lose knowledge or skills. And for you, dear reader, there are two possible benefits: you may also learn something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5340,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}