{"id":652,"date":"2011-12-06T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2011-12-06T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:17:49","slug":"new-series-the-known-unknowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/new-series-the-known-unknowns\/","title":{"rendered":"New Series: The Known Unknowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton652\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-series-the-known-unknowns%2F&amp;text=New%20Series%3A%20The%20Known%20Unknowns&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-series-the-known-unknowns%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/new-series-the-known-unknowns\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><em>[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But there are also unknown unknowns \u2013 the ones we don&#8217;t know we don&#8217;t know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, &#8220;answering&#8221; a question about the connection between Iraq and weapons of mass destruction<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These words of Donald Rumsfeld were instantly famous enough to become the basis of a number of whimsical &#8220;Donald Rumsfeld Poetry&#8221; projects, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/low_concept\/2003\/04\/the_poetry_of_dh_rumsfeld.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>. I&#8217;m not a Rumsfeld fan, to put it mildly, but I do truly love this quote and find its logic flawless and strangely beautiful. Therefore, I&#8217;m stealing the second set of knowns &#8212; the known unknowns &#8212; for the name of the new series of posts which now form the structure of this site.<\/p>\n<p>Twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, I will post my thoughts and questions about writing and creativity. There&#8217;s no lack of blogs and podcasts (and certainly books) about what the author or host knows and would generously like to impart to you. But my favorite discussion-format podcasts &#8212; WTF, Mental Illness Happy Hour, and How Did This Get Made? &#8212; all spend far more time asking than preaching. This sits well with me. Maybe it&#8217;s because of a hesitancy to position myself as an expert, maybe it&#8217;s a product of my agnostic upbringing, but I&#8217;d much rather hear someone try and puzzle out what they don&#8217;t understand and why than proclaim a Definitive Answer for a thing (in my case, writing) that has no definitive answers.<\/p>\n<p>So every week, twice a week, I will share with you a little of what I&#8217;ve learned, but a whole LOT of what still puzzles the shit out of me. Oh, and I will be using some coarse language, as well as referencing TV and movies, which I&#8217;m going to warn you here I love every bit as much as I love books and the written word. Post #1 is going up in about a minute, so please enjoy. Check back every Tuesday and Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton652\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-series-the-known-unknowns%2F&amp;text=New%20Series%3A%20The%20Known%20Unknowns&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-series-the-known-unknowns%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>In which we learn more about the new direction of this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-is-hard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}