{"id":88,"date":"2012-04-09T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T01:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/?p=88"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:51:01","slug":"the-painful-quantizing-effect-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/04\/09\/the-painful-quantizing-effect-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painful Quantizing Effect of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in the back of my head, I&#8217;ve been looking for a good way to describe the painful effect words can have on thoughts and their expression. Well try this one on for size:<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you a staccato note. Staccato notes have clear starts, clear stops, and a noticeable space in between. Imagine that words are not just very good at describing staccato notes but that they are only good at describing staccato, on-the-beat notes. Now try to describe a song with melody, harmony, slurrs and slides, harmonics, subharmonics, syncopation, and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>Get what I&#8217;m trying to say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in the back of my head, I&#8217;ve been looking for a good way to describe the painful effect words can have on thoughts and their expression. Well try this one on for size: Imagine you a staccato note. Staccato &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/04\/09\/the-painful-quantizing-effect-of-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-philosophy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}