{"id":30,"date":"2005-04-12T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T13:32:13","slug":"post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/12\/post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my good friend, Californian dude, occasional Reinvented Software developer and refreshingly mad person Hans Kim started his own blog and &#8211; ahem &#8211; dedicated <a href=\"http:\/\/hanskim.dicedesign.com\/wordpress\/?p=1\">the first post<\/a> to me. Thanks Hans! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The Blog is called <a href=\"http:\/\/hanskim.dicedesign.com\/wordpress\/\">Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc<\/a>, which if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post_hoc\">my Latin serves me correctly<\/a> translates as &#8220;After This, Therefore Because of This&#8221; or the assumption that because one apparently related event follows another, then the first must have caused the second.<\/p>\n<p>To test that in a silly way: Did Hans start a blog the day of my 30th birthday because I started one the day after his? Er, no. The coincidences don&#8217;t mean anything. In fact, Hans was the first person to tell me I should start a blog, while long before that had told me he wanted to start one himself. I&#8217;ll let you work out the Latin (or even the English!) for that in your own time.<\/p>\n<p>Happy blogging, Hanso!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my good friend, Reinvented Software developer and refreshingly mad person Hans Kim started his own blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reinventedsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}