{"id":5,"date":"2007-01-25T08:51:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T13:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/inbes\/2007\/01\/25\/posner-on-socializing-i-like-it\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T13:51:35","slug":"posner-on-socializing-i-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/2007\/01\/25\/posner-on-socializing-i-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Posner on socializing :-) I like it !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posner prefers to avoid social life. \u201cPeople don\u2019t say interesting things,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of socializing is just dull \u2014 I\u2019d rather read a book. I have a friend, an economist who\u2019s Swedish, and he told me that Sweden has terrible television, so people there spend their time visiting each other. But that\u2019s worse, because when you watch television you get some information, you even get some moral instruction, you learn to be nice to single mothers or what have you, but socializing, particularly family \u2014 well, that is deadly. When you\u2019re just talking with your friends about trivia, what\u2019s the point?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posner prefers to avoid social life. \u201cPeople don\u2019t say interesting things,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of socializing is just dull \u2014 I\u2019d rather read a book. I have a friend, an economist who\u2019s Swedish, and he told me that Sweden has terrible television, so people there spend their time visiting each other. But that\u2019s worse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/inbes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}