{"id":3821,"date":"2010-03-15T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2010-03-15T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T08:11:11","slug":"quote-there-is-often-no-alternative-but-thinking-in-terms-of-a-second-or-third-best-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/quote-there-is-often-no-alternative-but-thinking-in-terms-of-a-second-or-third-best-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote :: There is often no alternative but thinking in terms of a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cthird\u201d best. But&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThere is often no alternative but thinking in terms of a \u201csecond\u201d or  \u201cthird\u201d best. But that thinking is more soundly directed if done in  terms of an image of what the \u201cfirst\u201d best would be, and how the  \u201csecond\u201d and \u201cthird\u201d bests might be designed to move in the direction of  that \u201cfirst\u201d best, or at least not to be in contradiction with it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coordinationproblem.org\/2010\/03\/too-good-for-the-comments-ebeling-on-mises-the-applied-economist.html\">via .Too Good for the Comments:  Ebeling on Mises the Applied Economist<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is often no alternative but thinking in terms of a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cthird\u201d best. But that thinking is more soundly directed if done in terms of an image of what the \u201cfirst\u201d best would be, and how the \u201csecond\u201d and \u201cthird\u201d bests might be designed to move in the direction of that \u201cfirst\u201d best, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/15\/quote-there-is-often-no-alternative-but-thinking-in-terms-of-a-second-or-third-best-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote :: There is often no alternative but thinking in terms of a \u201csecond\u201d or \u201cthird\u201d best. But&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,75,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-quote","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}