{"id":993,"date":"2007-09-12T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/punting\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:22:07","slug":"punting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/punting\/","title":{"rendered":"Punting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my blogging time today got subsumed into a lengthy debate about the gender-neutral pronoun in English, the use of &#8220;man&#8221; to mean <em>homo sapiens<\/em> and not &#8220;a single male human&#8221;, and related matters, I have to punt on blogging tonight. (Although the discussion should be the seed of a good post later.)<\/p>\n<p>So, for your entertainment tonight, I turn the microphone over to my old buddy George, making points that seem nigh-prescient now about consumer culture and the unexamined life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My heart rebels against my generation,<br \/>\nThat talks of freedom and is slave to riches,<br \/>\nAnd, toiling \u2018neath each day\u2019s ignoble burden,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Boasts of the morrow.<\/p>\n<p>No space for noonday rest or midnight watches,<br \/>\nNo purest joy of breathing under heaven!<br \/>\nWretched themselves, they heap, to make them happy,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Many possessions.<\/p>\n<p slign=\"right\">\u2014George Santayana (1863 &#8211; 1952)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Since my blogging time today got subsumed into a lengthy debate about the gender-neutral pronoun in English, the use of &#8220;man&#8221; to mean homo sapiens and not &#8220;a single male human&#8221;, and related matters, I have to punt on blogging tonight. (Although the discussion should be the seed of a good post later.) So, for your entertainment tonight, I turn&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/punting\/\">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":[261,100,264],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-cliches","tag-pedantry","tag-poetry","tag-santayana","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-punting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}