{"id":5025,"date":"2004-09-25T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T16:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/09\/25\/fish-to-kerry-keep-it-simple\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:25","slug":"fish-to-kerry-keep-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/25\/fish-to-kerry-keep-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish to Kerry: keep it simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"podium Haiku lovers know the value of brevity.  With Presidential campaign “debates” coming soon, the venerable <\/FONT>Dean <\/FONT>Stanley Fish<\/FONT><\/A> shared some invaluable advice <\/FONT>with John Kerry in a New York Times <\/EM><\/FONT>op\/ed piece<\/A> yesterday.  E.g.<\/EM>:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“If you can’t explain an idea or a policy plainly in one or two sentences, it’s not yours; and if it’s not yours, no one <\/STRONG><\/FONT>you speak to will be persuaded of it, or even know what it is, or (and this is the real point) know what you are<\/STRONG>.” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tired of listening
the man walks away…
cicada on a branch<\/SPAN> <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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from <\/FONT>Kobayashi Issa<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>, translated by <\/FONT>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A>   <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haiku lovers know the value of brevity.  With Presidential campaign “debates” coming soon, the venerable Dean Stanley Fish shared some invaluable advice with John Kerry in a New York Times op\/ed piece yesterday.  E.g.:   “If you can’t explain an idea or a policy plainly in one or two sentences, it’s not yours; and if it’s not yours, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1j3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13617,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/13617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}