{"id":1406,"date":"2008-08-13T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2008-08-13T22:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T02:57:39","slug":"and-one-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/and-one-last-time\/","title":{"rendered":"And one last time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential &#8212; for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.  Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;John Maynard Keynes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>You are not here merely to make a living.  You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.  You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;Woodrow Wilson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one&#8217;s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;H. L. Mencken<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">&mdash;Robert Southey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential &#8212; for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. &mdash;S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. &mdash;John Maynard Keynes&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/13\/and-one-last-time\/\">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":[13],"tags":[458,135,123,238,125,102],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cliches","tag-books","tag-freedom","tag-life","tag-philosophy","tag-quote","tag-wisdom","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-mG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","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=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}