{"id":70,"date":"2008-03-26T08:33:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:57:55","slug":"in-need-of-a-competent-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"In Need of a Subtil Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don't know whether Robert Francis Kennedy was engaged in plagiarism or allusion when he said <blockquote>Some men look at things the way they are and ask <q>Why?<\/q>  I dream of things that are not and ask <q>Why not?<\/q><\/blockquote> It was the former if he expected the audience to take the words as his own, and the latter if he expected the audience to recognize this as an echo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/13084\/13084.txt\">George Bernard Shaw<\/a>: <blockquote>You see things; and you say, <q>Why?<\/q> But I dream things that never were; and I say, <q>Why not?<\/q><\/blockquote> In any case, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/usatoday\/20080326\/cm_usatoday\/abravenewworldwithoutus;_ylt=AuJ2j5e9FJnzBnhFfZGme1us0NUE\">when Lionel Beehner said<\/a>\r\n<blockquote>It seems today's thinkers, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/usatoday\/cm_usatoday\/storytext\/abravenewworldwithoutus\/26851668\/SIG=17ur42o3i\/*http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wAow0yI7cPIC&amp;pg=PA190&amp;lpg=PA190&amp;dq=robert+kennedy+%22some+men+look+at+things+the+way+they+are+and+ask+why+i+dream+of+things+that+are+not+and+ask+why+not%22&amp;source=web&amp;ots=RplN6ILT1P&amp;sig=-6hY1aud_sTaOox2f0bg_cGzumU&amp;hl=en\">to paraphrase Robert Kennedy<\/a>, like to imagine a world that wasn't and ask, why not?<\/blockquote> he was engaged in ignorance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don't know whether Robert Francis Kennedy was engaged in plagiarism or allusion when he said Some men look at things the way they are and ask Why? I dream of things that are not and ask Why not? It was the former if he expected the audience to take the words as his own, [&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":[6,4],"tags":[108,111,110,112],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-public","tag-citation","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-quotation","tag-robert-francis-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}