{"id":71586,"date":"2018-05-27T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71586"},"modified":"2018-05-27T18:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T22:30:55","slug":"john-mark-reynolds-wrong-not-just-because-we-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71586","title":{"rendered":"John Mark Reynolds&#8211;Wrong, Not Just Because We Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation time brings out the inspirational quote. One quotation keeps showing up, disasterous advice and a misquotation. Before getting to the ethics problem, as a public service, let me suggest three truths about citing famous people:<\/p>\n<p><strong>First, relying on quotation sites on the \u2018Net is dangerous. Check the original text.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once while\u00a0<a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2009\/11\/rogue-thoughts-chapter-by-chapter-on-sarah-palin\">reading<\/a>\u00a0Sarah Palin, I discovered she had at least three quotations (including one from Plato) that were wrong. A quick Google showed a quote site that had all the errors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, if the citation does not include a text reference and Google does not show the text it is from, assume it is spurious.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone gets something wrong, sometime. I relied on a book that said Alfred Wallace was a Lord: wrong. If you cite badly, just be sorry, correct, and hope your critic can let it go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third, Shakespeare and Plato are very dangerous to cite\u00a0<i>as they don\u2019t always agree with their characters.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/eidos\/2018\/05\/wrong-not-just-because-we-think-so\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation time brings out the inspirational quote. One quotation keeps showing up, disasterous advice and a misquotation. Before getting to the ethics problem, as a public service, let me suggest three truths about citing famous people: First, relying on quotation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71586\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,92,168,133,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71588,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71586\/revisions\/71588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}