{"id":208,"date":"2006-04-21T22:35:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:13:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:13:03","slug":"aphorism-of-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Aphorism of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Existen normas del buen gusto, pero no podemos conocerlas.<br \/>S&oacute;lo podemos aplicarlas.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"navy\">Standards of good taste exist, but we cannot know them.<br \/>We can only apply them.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">(Nicol&aacute;s G&oacute;mez D&aacute;vila, <em>Escolios a un Texto Impl&iacute;cito<\/em>, 2.330)<\/p>\n<p>As one of my teachers in college put it, &#147;<em>De gustibus non est disputandum<\/em> does <em>not<\/em> mean that everyone&#8217;s taste is equal.  It means that some people are wrong, and others are right, even if they can&#8217;t prove it.&#148; This is a loose paraphrase of something said 30+ years ago, but the gist is accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existen normas del buen gusto, pero no podemos conocerlas.S&oacute;lo podemos aplicarlas. Standards of good taste exist, but we cannot know them.We can only apply them. (Nicol&aacute;s G&oacute;mez D&aacute;vila, Escolios a un Texto Impl&iacute;cito, 2.330) As one of my teachers in college put it, &#147;De gustibus non est disputandum does not mean that everyone&#8217;s taste is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}