{"id":1689,"date":"2011-11-15T18:56:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2011-11-15T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:23:38","slug":"categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I swear I’ve been meaning to write this post about “Categories” for the last couple days, even before John Regan wrote his post today<\/a> about “Categories of Thought.” My post is more mundane and of a housekeeping nature: As part of my intermittent quest for minimalism in this blog’s presentation, I’ve replaced both the Blogroll and the Links page with the Categories drop down menu to the right. Note that each of the bloggers who used to be on the Blogroll is now his own Category, so you can select his name and see every post here in which I’ve mentioned and\/or linked to him. Most of my Categories are People. (I decided to clean up the blog and revamp my Categories this weekend, and have actually only gotten halfway through all the posts, working sporadically from the most recent back towards the very first post a couple years ago. Therefore, clicking on a Category won’t yet bring up any of the older posts that fit under that Category.)<\/p>\n

But back to John Regan’s far more interesting post on Categories. He writes:<\/p>\n

This is one reason it is important to keep the heart of a child<\/a> even in manhood.\u00a0 Because when the young notice you have to pay attention; but typically, this early warning of trouble ahead is met with disdain and disparagement by those whose hearts have become too grown up, too set in their ways.\u00a0 To them the question of whether the categories themselves require revision or revisiting is off the table.\u00a0 If there is a problem it resides in the complainers.\u00a0 The whiners.\u00a0 The slackoisie<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose my incessant fantasizing on this blog about Cowboys<\/a> and Indians<\/a> is pretty childish. At least I hope it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I swear I’ve been meaning to write this post about “Categories” for the last couple days, even before John Regan wrote his post today about “Categories of Thought.” My post is more mundane and of a housekeeping nature: As part of my intermittent quest for minimalism in this blog’s presentation, I’ve replaced both the Blogroll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-regan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}