{"id":11203,"date":"2010-10-19T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/19\/kerouac-october-quotation-19-vanity-of-vanities\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T19:26:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:26:20","slug":"kerouac-october-quotation-19-vanity-of-vanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/19\/kerouac-october-quotation-19-vanity-of-vanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac October Quotation # 19: Vanity of Vanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Vanity of Duluoz<\/em>, p. 23:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Still I say, what means it? You may say that I&#39;m a braggart about football, although all these records are available in the newspaper files called morgue, I admit I&#39;m a braggart, but I&#39;m not calling it thus because what was the use of it all anyway, for as the Preacher sayeth:&#0160; &quot;Vanity of vanities . . . all is vanity.&quot;&#0160; You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you even die, and the name of that grave is &quot;success,&quot; the name of that grave is hullaballoo boomboom horseshit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanity of Duluoz, p. 23: Still I say, what means it? You may say that I&#39;m a braggart about football, although all these records are available in the newspaper files called morgue, I admit I&#39;m a braggart, but I&#39;m not calling it thus because what was the use of it all anyway, for as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/19\/kerouac-october-quotation-19-vanity-of-vanities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerouac October Quotation # 19: Vanity of Vanities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}