{"id":13446,"date":"2016-06-29T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13446"},"modified":"2024-07-03T02:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:17:05","slug":"scientific-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13446","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ScientificThinking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13447\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ScientificThinking-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Scientific Thinking\" width=\"771\" height=\"617\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo, its even more fundamental, you are practicing blindness.<br \/>\nIn order to be able to perceive you have be able and willing to confront and see what is actually there.<br \/>\nNot &#8220;see&#8221; what you think is there.<br \/>\nNot just believe what you are told is there.<br \/>\nNot pretend to see what you hope is there.<br \/>\nBut actually observe what is really there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, its even more fundamental, you are practicing blindness. In order to be able to perceive you have be able and willing to confront and see what is actually there. Not &#8220;see&#8221; what you think is there. Not just believe what you are told is there. Not pretend to see what you hope is there. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=13446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientific Thinking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52958,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions\/52958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}