{"id":750,"date":"2006-10-25T07:26:34","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T07:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/25\/idea-is-a-perfectly-good-word\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T07:26:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T07:26:34","slug":"idea-is-a-perfectly-good-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/25\/idea-is-a-perfectly-good-word\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Idea&#8221; is a Perfectly Good Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rant about &#8220;meme&#8221; being a stupid idea that I mentioned near the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/dawkins_and_theology.php\">Monday&#8217;s Dawkins post<\/a> turns out to be from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mikethemadbiologist\/2006\/10\/the_vapidity_of_the_whole_meme_1.php\">Mike the Mad Biologist<\/a>, who reposted it yesterday. Executive summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The word doesn&#8217;t add much, obscures important phenomena, is imprecise, and is vitalistic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;m sure you were dying to know this, but I&#8217;m posting the link here as much so I can find it again if I need it as because you really ought to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rant about &#8220;meme&#8221; being a stupid idea that I mentioned near the end of Monday&#8217;s Dawkins post turns out to be from Mike the Mad Biologist, who reposted it yesterday. Executive summary: The word doesn&#8217;t add much, obscures important phenomena, is imprecise, and is vitalistic. I&#8217;m sure you were dying to know this, but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/25\/idea-is-a-perfectly-good-word\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Idea&#8221; is a Perfectly Good Word<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}