{"id":2303,"date":"2003-04-07T10:54:21","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=392"},"modified":"2010-05-18T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:55:58","slug":"re-the-metaphors-of-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/07\/re-the-metaphors-of-war-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The Metaphors of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <strong>Joho the Blog<\/strong>:<\/em><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/001377.html\">Joho the Blog<\/a> linked to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=391#391\">this post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>George Lakoff Is Like a &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me begin with the standard-issue praise, which is no less sincere for being completely predictable: George Lakoff and Mark Johnson&#8217;s Metaphors We Live By helped shape my thinking. Their book Philosophy in the Flesh is a truly fresh and mind-pivoting look at philosophy. I thank them for all that I&#8217;ve learned from them. (And now comes the &#8220;But&#8230;&#8221;) But Dr. Lakoff&#8217;s most recent op-ed comes close to self-parody. Lakoff has a superb eye for pointing out how what we take as straightforward, factual descriptions are in fact highly metaphorical \u2014 everything from talking about &#8220;high&#8221; notes to &#8220;straightforward&#8221; descriptions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Joho the Blog: Joho the Blog linked to this post George Lakoff Is Like a &#8230; Let me begin with the standard-issue praise, which is no less sincere for being completely predictable: George Lakoff and Mark Johnson&#8217;s Metaphors We Live By helped shape my thinking. Their book Philosophy in the Flesh is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}