{"id":527,"date":"2011-01-27T15:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T19:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=527"},"modified":"2013-08-29T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:28:41","slug":"analects-of-the-core-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/01\/27\/analects-of-the-core-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Confucius on flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; often attributed to Confucius, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Analects-Confucius-Arthur-Waley\/dp\/0679722963\/\">Analects<\/a> are studied in the second-semester freshman humanities, <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc102\">CC102: Antiquity and the Medieval World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Tertiary research suggests this is derived from \u5be7\u53ef\u7389\u788e\uff0c\u4e0d\u80fd\u74e6\u5168, a Chinese proverb meaning roughly &#8220;Better be a piece of broken jade than unbroken tile.&#8221;\u00a0 Why this quote is often attributed to Confucius is unclear.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. &#8212; often attributed to Confucius, whose Analects are studied in the second-semester freshman humanities, CC102: Antiquity and the Medieval World. [Tertiary research suggests this is derived from \u5be7\u53ef\u7389\u788e\uff0c\u4e0d\u80fd\u74e6\u5168, a Chinese proverb meaning roughly &#8220;Better be a piece of broken jade than unbroken tile.&#8221;\u00a0 Why this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3692,4572,3773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}