{"id":75,"date":"2007-12-22T23:21:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/22\/quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T23:41:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T23:41:31","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/22\/quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I see terms like &#8220;technically correct&#8221; or &#8220;politically correct&#8221;, I think these words were written by someone who has been wrong for so long, and finds it so painful to make corrections, that the last resort is to ridicule correctness, like that kid in the back of the class who doesn&#8217;t know the answer and so mocks the teacher.<\/p>\n<p align=right>&mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/users.php?mode=profile&#038;uid=8454\">FreeChief<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/comment.php?mode=display&#038;sid=20071217142920618&#038;title=%26quot%3BTechnically%20corrrect%26quot%3B%2C%20but%20what%3F&#038;type=article&#038;order=&#038;hideanonymous=0&#038;pid=656824#c656875\">Groklaw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I see terms like &#8220;technically correct&#8221; or &#8220;politically correct&#8221;, I think these words were written by someone who has been wrong for so long, and finds it so painful to make corrections, that the last resort is to ridicule correctness, like that kid in the back of the class who doesn&#8217;t know the answer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/12\/22\/quote-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote of the day.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-1d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}