{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-10T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-01-18T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:52:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words are the tools we use to tell stories. Stories are what we use to delude ourselves and others into believing that we understand. I am strictly less than the sum of my experiences. Free will is a useful approximation. Predictability is a necessary condition for trust. Telling the truth is about helping others construct good models for making decisions. Discrimination is in essence a failure to understand that correlation does not imply causality. A principle doesn&#8217;t have to always work to be worth striving to preserve. Belief in an absolute moral authority is unnecessary if there are no disputes and useless if there are.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words are the tools we use to tell stories. Stories are what we use to delude ourselves and others into believing that we understand. I am strictly less than the sum of my experiences. Free will is a useful approximation. Predictability is a necessary condition for trust. Telling the truth is about helping others construct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodgestar.za.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}