{"id":1306,"date":"2004-09-08T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T22:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2004-09-08T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T22:22:25","slug":"a-matter-of-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/09\/a-matter-of-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an announcement for a talk next week in our business school. The title is &#8220;Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Inter-organizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences.&#8221; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~woodyp\/papers\/network_dynamics.pdf\">paper<\/a> on which the talk is based has a different title, but the reference to polygamy has me wondering about this person&#8217;s perception of polygamy. Given the implicit contrast, I assume that he views polygamy negatively, but I have never thought of polygamy as being a matter of <em>taste<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Then again, last week in priesthood meeting, the subject of the Church&#8217;s website was raised by the teacher, who was marveling at the various ways that he could sort information. I asked whether we could sort conference talks to hear only the ones discussing commandments that we like. To which the natural response was, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a computer filter to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an announcement for a talk next week in our business school. The title is &#8220;Practicing Polygamy with Good Taste: The Evolution of Inter-organizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences.&#8221; The paper on which the talk is based has a different title, but the reference to polygamy has me wondering about this person&#8217;s perception of polygamy. Given the implicit contrast, I assume that he views polygamy negatively, but I have never thought of polygamy as being a matter of taste. Then again, last week in priesthood meeting, the subject of the Church&#8217;s website was raised by the teacher, who was marveling at the various ways that he could sort information. I asked whether we could sort conference talks to hear only the ones discussing commandments that we like. To which the natural response was, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need a computer filter to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}