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  "thread": {
    "id": 659,
    "subject": "Apology for inadvertent pomposity",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-24T14:55:31+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-24T14:55:31+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0097@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "adam louis stephanides",
        "address": "astephan at students.uiuc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-24T14:55:31+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Apology for inadvertent pomposity",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I wrote:\nI wasn't worried about being misquoted.  What did concern me slightly was \nthe possibility that my conclusions might be given without the reasoning \nbehind them, making them appear more speculative than they are.."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Several hours after posting this, I realized it made me sound as if I\nthought that anyone seeing my reasoning would be convinced by it, which\nwasn't what I had meant at all.  What I had really been afraid of was that\nmy ideas would come off as being wild speculations with no basis in the\ntext; but I hadn't wanted to suggest that Mr. Broderick would treat me in\nsuch a way.  I really should learn to wait before posting.\n\n--Adam"
        }
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