{"id":768,"date":"2013-03-18T03:12:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=768"},"modified":"2013-03-18T03:12:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T07:12:13","slug":"henry-david-thoreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Henry David Thoreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on: it is all dissipation. If you are restricted to your range by poverty&#8230;you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences; you are compelled to deal with the material which yields the most sugar and the most starch. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.<\/h5>\n<p>\u2014 Walden <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Do &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}