{"id":410,"date":"2007-06-18T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2007-06-18T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T12:51:42","slug":"specificity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Specificity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It often happens&#8211;every day actually&#8211;that people say things I wanted to, <a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyfire.typepad.com\/whiskey_fire\/2007\/06\/buzzards_and_dr.html\">only better<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>An annoyance: any discussion of any complex issue in terms of abstract taxonomy at the expense of a careful account <strong>of specific people, places, times, motivations, and events<\/strong>. This gives me hives when it pops up in, say, literary criticism, but it really pisses me off in discussions of foreign policy, where the consequences of f***ing up are a lot of dead people.<\/p>\n<p>I would add, of course, specific arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It often happens&#8211;every day actually&#8211;that people say things I wanted to, only better: >An annoyance: any discussion of any complex issue in terms of abstract taxonomy at the expense of a careful account of specific people, places, times, motivations, and events. This gives me hives when it pops up in, say, literary criticism, but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Specificity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}