{"id":473,"date":"2009-10-09T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2009-10-14T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T11:55:16","slug":"wisdom-does-it-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom: Does It Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quarterly journal, In Character, has an interesting mandate: each issue is devoted to an “everyday virtue” (past issues have included “Thrift,” “Purpose,” and “Grit.”) This fall’s issue is “Wisdom,” and I was asked–along with a group of far-deeper-than-me folks like E.J. Dionne, Rabbi Smuley Boteach, Roger Scruton, and Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden, among others–to weigh in on the questions,\u00a0 “Is there such a thing as wisdom?” and, “If so, can it be taught?” The results are here<\/a>. My only sadness is that I am not in the “Grit” issue. Loving the grit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quarterly journal, In Character, has an interesting mandate: each issue is devoted to an “everyday virtue” (past issues have included “Thrift,” “Purpose,” and “Grit.”) This fall’s issue is “Wisdom,” and I was asked–along with a group of far-deeper-than-me folks like E.J. Dionne, Rabbi Smuley Boteach, Roger Scruton, and Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden, among others–to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}