{"id":1686,"date":"2014-12-28T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T23:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2014-12-28T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T23:50:33","slug":"gutta-cavat-lapidem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/12\/28\/gutta-cavat-lapidem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutta Cavat Lapidem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nGutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo.<br \/>\nSic homo fit sapiens bis non, sed saepe legendo.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n(The drop hollows the stone by falling not twice, but many times. This is how a human becomes smart by reading not twice, but many times.)<\/p>\n<p>It does sounds way better in the original Latin&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This was written by <em>Giordano Bruno<\/em> probably based on a line by <em>Publius Ovidius Naso<\/em> which goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling many times.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo. Sic homo fit sapiens bis non, sed saepe legendo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}