{"id":3244,"date":"2019-11-16T19:26:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T02:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2019-11-16T19:26:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T02:26:19","slug":"on-muddled-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2019\/11\/16\/on-muddled-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"On Muddled Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity. <strong>I\u2019m happy when I can admit, at least to myself, that my thinking is muddled, and I try to overcome the embarrassment that I might reveal ignorance or confusion.<\/strong> Over the years, this has helped me develop clarity in some things, but I remain muddled in many others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014\u2009William Thurston, Fields-medal winning mathematician<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity. I\u2019m happy when I can admit, at least to myself, that my thinking is muddled, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2019\/11\/16\/on-muddled-thinking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}