{"id":898,"date":"2004-04-30T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2004-04-30T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T14:14:03","slug":"devaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Devaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/manybooks.net\/titles\/humedavidetext03dlgnr10.html\">Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,<\/a> Cleanthes remarks on <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;the adorably mysterious and incomprehensible nature of the Supreme Being.&#8221;<\/span> How long has it been since &#8220;Adorable&#8221; meant &#8220;worthy of adoration&#8221;? If anything nowadays is described as &#8220;adorable and utterly divine&#8221; it&#8217;s either a tea set, or a fluffy toy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Cleanthes remarks on &#8220;the adorably mysterious and incomprehensible nature of the Supreme Being.&#8221; How long has it been since &#8220;Adorable&#8221; meant &#8220;worthy of adoration&#8221;? If anything nowadays is described as &#8220;adorable and utterly divine&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}