{"id":133546,"date":"2015-10-02T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/02\/icarus-the-original-myth-had-two-parts-daedalus\/"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:41:49","slug":"icarus-the-original-myth-had-two-parts-daedalus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/02\/icarus-the-original-myth-had-two-parts-daedalus\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Icarus. The original myth had two parts. Daedalus said to his son, \u2018I fashioned these wings for you. Two rules. Don\u2019t fly too high, or the sun will melt the wax. But, more important, son, don\u2019t fly too low. Because if you fly too low, the water and the waves will surely weigh down the wings, and you will die.\u2019 We\u2019ve left out the second part of the myth. We don\u2019t say to people anymore, \u2018Don\u2019t fly too low.\u2019 All we do from the time they are 4 years old is warn them against hubris. We have created this industrially led structure that says: How dare you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Seth Godin (via <a href=\"http:\/\/fenharel.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">commanderspock<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icarus. The original myth had two parts. Daedalus said to his son, \u2018I fashioned these wings for you. Two rules. Don\u2019t fly too high, or the sun will melt the wax. But, more important, son, don\u2019t fly too low. Because if you fly too low, the water and the waves will surely weigh down the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/10\/02\/icarus-the-original-myth-had-two-parts-daedalus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3441,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}