{"id":7913,"date":"2020-05-24T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:05:20","slug":"a-commencement-address-too-honest-to-deliver-in-person-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/24\/a-commencement-address-too-honest-to-deliver-in-person-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>No, my worry is that, especially now that you\u2019re out of college, you won\u2019t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I\u2019m talking about what you might call the \u201ctheory of maximum taste.\u201d This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you spend your time only with run-of-the-mill stuff.<br \/>\nThe theory of maximum taste says that each person\u2019s mind is defined by its upper limit\u2014the best that it habitually consumes and is capable of consuming<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/05\/commencement-address-too-honest-have-been-delivered-person\/611572\/\">A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, my worry is that, especially now that you\u2019re out of college, you won\u2019t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I\u2019m talking about what you might call the \u201ctheory of maximum taste.\u201d This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/24\/a-commencement-address-too-honest-to-deliver-in-person-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person &#8211; The Atlantic&#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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","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=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}