{"id":30555,"date":"2008-11-15T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30555"},"modified":"2008-11-16T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T18:00:22","slug":"john-howes-journal-saints-haloes-and-mouses-ears-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/11\/15\/30555-john-howes-journal-saints-haloes-and-mouses-ears-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"John Howe’s Journal: SAINT’S HALOES AND MOUSE’S EARS PART I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Or Putting A Few Things in Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n

The things we accept visually, rapidly and at face value, are legion. All those things we recognize, that “jump the synapses directly as a code” (as the folks in advertising just love to say), make up probably the majority of what we encounter in our daily lives. (One of the main attractions of travel is to satisfy the yearning to see rather than recognize; conversely, no familiarity at all would probably end up being very tiring or far worse.) I got to wondering about all those things of a varying nature, which we manage to identify effortllessly (likely the product of an umpteenth belated attempt to understand \u00ab Kant and the Platypus\u00bb by the ineffable and avuncular Eco, effort hardly effortless on my part, at least until I gave up trying yet again…) More…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or Putting A Few Things in Perspective The things we accept visually, rapidly and at face value, are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t