{"id":9211,"date":"2014-09-08T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2014-09-08T13:35:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T20:35:53","slug":"rousseau-on-buffon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/rousseau-on-buffon\/","title":{"rendered":"High Praise: Rousseau on Buffon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 1764, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lKp2uFa1TrMC&amp;pg=PA172&amp;lpg=PA172&amp;dq=rousseau+buffon+%22la+plus+belle+plume%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=wRYva_hXkh&amp;sig=23jouj0AZhfLERLspQaQIsMvz3I&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=YBIOVPu1N8WKsQT1vIKIBA&amp;ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=rousseau%20buffon%20%22la%20plus%20belle%20plume%22&amp;f=false\">Rousseau wrote<\/a> of the natural historian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe that Buffon is the equal of any of his contemporaries as a thinker and a philosophe; but as a writer, he has no peer. He wields the most beautiful pen of the age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/755\/000091482\/comte-de-buffon-1-sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"312\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffon, born September 7, 1707<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 1764, Rousseau wrote of the natural historian: I believe that Buffon is the equal of any of his contemporaries as a thinker and a philosophe; but as a writer, he has no peer. He wields the most beautiful pen of the age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}