{"id":1747,"date":"2014-04-19T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2014-04-18T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:23:53","slug":"errorgance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2014\/04\/19\/errorgance\/","title":{"rendered":"Errorgance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve begun reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003P2WO5E\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B003P2WO5E&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=smilsretr-20\">The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=smilsretr-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B003P2WO5E\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0by Brandon Sanderson. It is an epic fantasy novel and very, very good. I highly recommend it if you like epic fantasy.[1]<\/p>\n<p>One of the characters is studying to be a scholar and she uses a word that I must add to my own lexicon. Errorgance.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/arrogance\">arrogance<\/a>, is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an attitude of superiority manifested in an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/overbearing\">overbearing<\/a>manner or in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/presumptuous\">presumptuous<\/a>\u00a0claims or assumptions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Errogance adds to that, the quality of being totally and completely wrong&#8230; or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Not_even_wrong\">not even wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p>[1] Epic fantasy is where there is a large world that is complex, well thought out, and generally with a large cast of characters. Think The Lord of the Rings or The Wheel of Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve begun reading The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)\u00a0by Brandon Sanderson. It is an epic fantasy novel and very,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,12,36],"tags":[693,692,694],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-humor","category-life","tag-arrogance","tag-errorgance","tag-wrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}