{"id":53,"date":"2010-08-22T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-08-23T06:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:10:21","slug":"about-colorado-confluence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"An initial chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, and daily if the site becomes robust enough, I will post a quote or a thought, and leave it to participants to\u00a0discuss either it, or whatever they choose.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quote comes from John Maynard Keynes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Men will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leaving aside the sexism of the phrasing, what I love about this quote is the subtle combination of cynicism and idealism. We do &#8220;the rational thing&#8221; in the aggregate and in the long run (idealism), but not individually and in the short run (cynicism). My suggestion for a topic of conversation is this: What have we accomplished that is rational, and what are we doing that isn&#8217;t? Try to find the long-term trends that we should honor and reinforce, and the short-term tendencies that we should be aware of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, and daily if the site becomes robust enough, I will post a quote or a thought, and leave it to participants to\u00a0discuss either it, or whatever they choose. Today&#8217;s quote comes from John Maynard Keynes: Men will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives. Leaving aside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}