{"id":167,"date":"2006-02-06T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/02\/06\/believing-on-authority\/"},"modified":"2006-02-06T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T07:11:00","slug":"believing-on-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/02\/believing-on-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Believing on Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I have not seen it myself. I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there must be such a place. I believe it because reliable people have told me so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>C.S. Lewis, <i>Mere Christianity<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place as New York. I have not seen it myself. I could not prove by abstract reasoning that there must be such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/02\/believing-on-authority\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}