{"id":2921,"date":"2015-11-05T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T05:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2015-11-05T00:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T05:11:30","slug":"dont-be-too-sure-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2015\/11\/05\/dont-be-too-sure-of-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be too sure of yourself . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><em>When someone is honestly 55% right, that\u2019s very good and there\u2019s no\u00a0<\/em><em>use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it\u2019s wonderful, it\u2019s great luck, and let him thank God. But what\u2019s to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever says he\u2019s 100% right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>An Old Jew of Galicia [quoted by Czeslaw Milosz in <em>The Captive Mind]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen someone is honestly 55% right, that\u2019s very good and there\u2019s no\u00a0use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it\u2019s wonderful, it\u2019s great luck, and let him thank God. But what\u2019s to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever says he\u2019s 100% right is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}