{"id":71,"date":"2005-12-26T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-03T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T05:35:16","slug":"sun-tzu-the-art-of-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Sun Tzu &#8211; The Art of War (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/1600\/book-art-of-war.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/320\/book-art-of-war.jpg\" \/><\/a> When a dog pees on a mountain, does the mountain care? Depends on the size of the dog, you might answer, but in general it won&#8217;t. General &#8211; what better segway than that to lead into my two cents on Sun Tzu&#8217;s Art of War, commonly hailed as the essential read for business strategists, soldiers, garbage collectors, and, really, everybody, for war is a metaphor for life, and we all have one of these, after all. In spite of that Master Sun&#8217;s strategic nuggets of wisdom were a bit lost on me. I don&#8217;t object to anything said, and the style of the translation, and, I presume, the original, is very concise and poetic in it&#8217;s condension, but what in this book I find applicable is obvious, and what isn&#8217;t obvious doesn&#8217;t seem applicable. On top of that this edition has been translated an edited by Thomas Cleary. Cleary follow every few sentences of Sun&#8217;s text with serveral different commentaries, and the sequence of Sun&#8217;s dense, poetic writing, and the commentators clumsy, wordy rephrasing makes this an odd comedic experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a dog pees on a mountain, does the mountain care? Depends on the size of the dog, you might answer, but in general it won&#8217;t. General &#8211; what better segway than that to lead into my two cents on Sun Tzu&#8217;s Art of War, commonly hailed as the essential read for business strategists, soldiers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,5,28,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-right","category-books","category-englisch","category-guides","category-history","category-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}