{"id":791,"date":"2007-01-24T23:43:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T03:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/a-very-lazy-post\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T16:33:33","slug":"a-very-lazy-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/a-very-lazy-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A very lazy post."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just don&#8217;t have anything interesting of my own to say today. I shall let others say interesting things and be on my way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;There&#8217;s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit.  Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.&#8221; &#8212; Dorothy Parker<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.&#8221; &#8212; Edgar Allen Poe<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.&#8221; &#8212; William Blake<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Where others crouched and crawled and prayed, I stand the self-doomed unafraid.&#8221; &#8212; Jimmy from that Pogues album<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.&#8221; &#8212; John Locke<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.&#8221; &#8212; Francis Bacon, quoting Aristotle<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory?  They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.&#8221; &#8212; Santayana<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There are two things a real man likes: danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of playthings.&#8221; &#8212; Freddy The German<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent.  The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.&#8221; &#8212; Marshall McLuhan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I just don&#8217;t have anything interesting of my own to say today. I shall let others say interesting things and be on my way. &#8220;There&#8217;s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.&#8221; &#8212; Dorothy Parker &#8220;Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/a-very-lazy-post\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cliches","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-cL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}