{"id":13226,"date":"2020-05-18T19:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13226"},"modified":"2020-05-18T19:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:08:45","slug":"say-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13226","title":{"rendered":"Say what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saying, because I thought it was the case, that the phrase &#8216;May you live in interesting times&#8217; was a Chinese curse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well guess what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned the curse thing to one of the braniacs at work (Tony) and in the space of a heartbeat he&#8217;d looked it up, rubbished my assumption, provided at least 18 sources, and then (best of all) he gave me a much better Chinese saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, so some of that may have been very sligtly exaggerated, but the gist of it is true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the much better Chinese saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u5be7\u70ba\u592a\u5e73\u72ac\uff0c\u4e0d\u505a\u4e82\u4e16\u4eba<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to admit that&#8217;s deeply wise, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or in English, if you prefer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saying, because I thought it was the case, that the phrase &#8216;May you live in interesting times&#8217; was a Chinese curse. Well guess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}