{"id":337,"date":"2006-04-03T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T16:03:33","slug":"rousseaus-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/rousseaus-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rousseau’s Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

That post title is a book title<\/a>, so of course I had to blog about it ;-)<\/p>\n

The book is by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, it’s about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and it’s been reviewed by Darrin McMahon in the New York Times<\/em> (registration required).<\/p>\n

The “dog” refers to Rousseau’s delusional tendencies, but he also owned a dog named Sultan, who, McMahon writes, was “the only being with whom he could find the peace of true friendship in England.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That post title is a book title, so of course I had to blog about it ;-) The book is by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, it’s about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and it’s been reviewed by Darrin McMahon … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,8,22],"tags":[904,737,693,905,906,902,903],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-books","category-dogs","category-metaphysics","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-darrin-mcmahon","tag-david-edmonds","tag-john-eidinow","tag-rousseaus-dog","tag-sultan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}