{"id":15,"date":"2002-06-21T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2002-06-21T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=15"},"modified":"2002-06-21T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2002-06-21T18:54:10","slug":"rejoicing-in-the-discovery-of-my-own-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Rejoicing in the Discovery of My Own Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out the new poem by Shakespeare isn&#8217;t really by Shakespeare after all. No one ought to care a great deal because it wasn&#8217;t much good. But you have to admire anyone who can say, as Donald Foster did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaksper.net\/archives\/2002\/1484.html\">his attribution retraction<\/a>, &#8220;No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.&#8221; Or a blogger for that matter. Worth reading is Ron Rosenbaum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/pages\/observatory.asp\">reaction to the attribution retraction<\/a> (this link, alas, appears to be temporary). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out the new poem by Shakespeare isn&#8217;t really by Shakespeare after all. No one ought to care a great deal because it wasn&#8217;t much good. But you have to admire anyone who can say, as Donald Foster did in his attribution retraction, &#8220;No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=15' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}