{"id":1416,"date":"2009-03-10T16:49:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2009-09-28T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:30:10","slug":"arrested-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Arrested Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conversation to-day with <a href=\"http:\/\/mocketymock.com\/\">the Woman of Interest<\/a>, I said something that I have often said jocularly <blockquote>I'm not so much a fool as you think.<\/blockquote> It's actually a line in translation from a play, <cite>Policja<\/cite>, by S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek.  The line is spoken by the character of the General, after his paranoiac nature has kept him from being killed in an explosion.<\/p> <p>I only saw that play once, back in late '71 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0379933\/\">it<\/a> was broadcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/\">WNET<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0569410\/\">John McGiver<\/a> in the r&ocirc;le of the General.  But that one line has very much stuck with me, and repeatedly been used by me, ever since.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In conversation to-day with the Woman of Interest, I said something that I have often said jocularly I'm not so much a fool as you think. It's actually a line in translation from a play, Policja, by S\u0142awomir Mro\u017cek. The line is spoken by the character of the General, after his paranoiac nature has kept [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,117,5,4],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-communication","category-personal","category-public","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}