{"id":38135,"date":"2013-09-05T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38135"},"modified":"2013-09-05T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T13:44:58","slug":"38135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38135","title":{"rendered":"Koan Of Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"

A “koan” is a paradoxical riddle, more or less.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example: “If you have ice cream, I will give you ice cream.\u00a0 If you have none, I’ll take it away”.\u00a0 (It’s an “ice cream koan”).\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Pejman Yousefsadeh points out, the paradoxical riddles about Obamacare aren’t nearly as amusing<\/a>, to say nothing of sweet and creamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A “koan” is a paradoxical riddle, more or less. Here’s an example: “If you have ice cream, I will give you ice cream.\u00a0 If you have none, I’ll take it away”.\u00a0 (It’s an “ice cream koan”).\u00a0 As Pejman Yousefsadeh points out, the paradoxical riddles about Obamacare aren’t nearly as amusing, to say nothing of sweet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38143,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions\/38143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}