{"id":725,"date":"2009-05-01T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/01\/new-in-box-feature-mysterygram-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T13:12:00","slug":"new-in-box-feature-mysterygram-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/01\/new-in-box-feature-mysterygram-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"New In Box Feature: Mysterygram of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been blogging for millenia, right? That&#8217;s what epigrams are: little, pithy bits that go viral through a culture.<\/p>\n<p>I come across these cool passages all the time. So here&#8217;s the new game: I&#8217;ll mine these chunks of wisdom (and sheer cleverness) from the universe.<\/p>\n<p>You see if you can guess who said it. And if you use Google or some other search engine, be sure to cop to that fact in your answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Answers in the comment section below. And if nobody else gets it, I&#8217;ll give the correct answer in the next day&#8217;s Mysterygram. We&#8217;ll start with a toughy. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our civilization is characterized by the word &#8216;progress.&#8217;  Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features.<\/p>\n<p>Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself.<\/p>\n<p>For me, on the contrary, clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been blogging for millenia, right? That&#8217;s what epigrams are: little, pithy bits that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}