{"id":49116,"date":"2016-03-07T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49116"},"modified":"2016-03-07T04:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T04:13:40","slug":"echolalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49116","title":{"rendered":"Echolalia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Jefferson and Adams reverberating still ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>For your current interest: words eschanged between two candidates for the Presidency of the United States some two centuries back, as presented in a neat <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> today by <strong>John Robb<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cqGH3tsDqD\">pic.twitter.com\/cqGH3tsDqD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Robb (@johnrobb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnrobb\/status\/706537054293766144\">March 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t improve on John&#8217;s presentation of thesse two quotes &#8212; but I might perhaps point out that they were similarly relevant to poiitical discourse in 2010, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_zTN4BXvYI\">ReasonTV posted the following video<\/a> on YouTube:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_zTN4BXvYI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>As a conoisseur of coincidence, I appreciate the fact that <strong>Jefferson<\/strong> and <strong>Adams <\/strong>died within hours of each other &#8212; fifty years to the day after the signing of the <strong>Declaration of Independence<\/strong>. As <strong>Jorge Luis Borges<\/strong> observed of the rival theologians <strong>Aurelian <\/strong>and <strong>John of Pannonia<\/strong>, &#8220;The end of this story can only be related in metaphors since it takes place in the kingdom of heaven, where there is no time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Jefferson and Adams reverberating still ] . For your current interest: words eschanged between two candidates for the Presidency of the United States some two centuries back, as presented in a neat DoubleQuote today by John Robb: &#8230;.. pic.twitter.com\/cqGH3tsDqD &mdash; John Robb (@johnrobb) March 6, 2016 I can&#8217;t improve on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,415,51,398,652,817,7,383,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-elections","category-history","category-jefferson","category-literature","category-rhetoric","category-robb","category-symmetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49116"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49136,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions\/49136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}