{"id":8940,"date":"2010-03-02T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2010-02-28T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:50:04","slug":"stepping-beyond-your-area-of-competence-is-like-stepping-off-a-cliff-%e2%80%94-you-may-be-a-genius-within-that-area-but-an-idiot-outside-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8940","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;stepping beyond your area of competence is like stepping off a cliff \u2014 you may be a genius within that area, but an idiot outside it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell comments on the perils of an administration dominated by academics; intellectuals; elitists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=522457\">What do you think of the Obama administration<\/a>&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very hard to answer that without using language that is totally  inappropriate in polite society. But it is quite clear that they believe it is their job to take  decisions out of the hands of the voting public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what is <em>Obama&#8217;s<\/em> area of competence? Does he step out of it every  morning when he wakes up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell comments on the perils of an administration dominated by academics; intellectuals; elitists. What do you think of the Obama administration&#8230;? It&#8217;s very hard to answer that without using language that is totally inappropriate in polite society. But it is quite clear that they believe it is their job to take decisions out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8940","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\/8940","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8940\/revisions\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}