{"id":119,"date":"2011-01-27T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/?p=119"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:03:56","slug":"is-this-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2011\/01\/is-this-your-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Your Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/images\/fawlty-towers.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\">Here&#8217;s a novel little ditty that draws heavily from clips taken from the Fawlty Towers TV show, starring (both the show and this song) John Cleese.  I did not include it on the CD so as to avoid running afoul of the copyright police. So mum&#8217;s the word. Or tell the world. Either way. I can take it down from here fairly quickly if it comes to that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I post it now, because it came up in conversation, in the context of &#8220;my brain hurts&#8221; as a reaction to the rampant <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_dissonance\">cognitive dissonance<\/a> and, something I learned just today,  the widespread<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning-Kruger_Effect\"> Dunning-Kruger Effect<\/a> in the public discourse these days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, enjoy. Don&#8217;t hurt your brain.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/IsThisYourBrain.mp3\">Is This Your Brain?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a novel little ditty that draws heavily from clips taken from the Fawlty Towers TV show, starring (both the show and this song) John Cleese. I did not include it on the CD so as to avoid running afoul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2011\/01\/is-this-your-brain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}