{"id":1050,"date":"2007-12-05T23:27:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T03:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/thought-for-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T01:21:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T05:21:17","slug":"thought-for-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/thought-for-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are here to witness; if we were not here the show would play to an empty house . . . .That is why I go for walks . . . to keep an eye on things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&#8211;Annie Dillard<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While I am unsure about the teleological implications, I am sure I love the quote.  I believe that nature is a wonder, and life should be a performance, so I certainly need to take my turns in the audience role.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">(Pinched from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancarroll.com\/blog1\/\">Jonathan Carroll<\/a>)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;We are here to witness; if we were not here the show would play to an empty house . . . .That is why I go for walks . . . to keep an eye on things.&#8221; &#8211;Annie Dillard While I am unsure about the teleological implications, I am sure I love the quote. I believe that nature is a&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/thought-for-the-day-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,124,125],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","tag-life","tag-performance","tag-quote","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-gW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}