{"id":1721,"date":"2014-12-01T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/grahamakingportfolio\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-12-01T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:36:24","slug":"graham-cst-post-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/graham-cst-post-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham CST post week #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBetter to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.\u201d <em>Makers <\/em>401<\/p>\n<p>Why is clear thinking so often associated with clear speech?\u00a0 Obviously one who has the capacity to be intelligent and has the gift of language would not be considered a fool but why do we automatically assume the most vocal to be the most worldly?\u00a0 Why are speech impaired people called \u201cdumb\u201d?\u00a0 In my experience the most intelligent people do little talking, they are often the ones who listen to what others are saying and perceive their conclusions many steps in advance.\u00a0 I believe in many cases people who vocalize their ideas are sharing them in order to help themselves fully understand them and to offer them up for peer scrutiny which is not a negative exercise but if they fully understood the concept it certainly would not be necessary to externalize it.\u00a0 I believe language is a knowledge refining process.\u00a0 One has to filter ideas through language to be able to share it and interrogate it.\u00a0 True knowledge does not have a dialogue; it merely exists and is utilized in its pure form, enacting itself without the mediator of language.\u00a0 Some of the most intelligent people in the world cannot speak.\u00a0 Are babies still human before they gain speech?\u00a0 Are they any more intelligent after they\u2019ve learned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}