{"id":1590,"date":"2020-06-26T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2020-06-26T07:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T11:56:26","slug":"an-interesting-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2020\/06\/26\/an-interesting-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across a rather interesting rant and wonder what others think of it. Obviously it speaks to a new generation, correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"905\" height=\"530\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200626_0747502260337492917934853.jpg?resize=905%2C530&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200626_0747502260337492917934853.jpg?w=905&amp;ssl=1 905w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200626_0747502260337492917934853.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another rant about gadgets and the digital age? No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I was reading an article by a professor lamenting on the obvious and over-the-top use of Google by his graduate students in their search for subjects to write poems about.<br>In his article he uses this quote. It is a rant by Socrates, as accounted in Plato\u2019s Phaedrus.<br>Socrates was, of course, voicing his disdain for the new invention of \u201cthe written word\u201d.<br>It\u2019s interesting to see the parallels in the modern day arguments concerning digital versus print.<br>Socrates felt that the written word would lead to a loss of knowledge because students would simply write down a collection of facts without using their memory to keep the words alive and thus gain wisdom through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>It seems that the more things change, the reactions to them remain the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I came across a rather interesting rant and wonder what others think of it. Obviously it speaks to a new generation, correct? Another rant about gadgets and the digital age? No. I was reading an article by a professor lamenting on the obvious and over-the-top use of Google by his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2020\/06\/26\/an-interesting-quote\/\" title=\"An Interesting Quote\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books-awareness-and-reading-for-knowledge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}