{"id":11241,"date":"2010-10-11T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/11\/kerouac-october-quotation-11-for-the-sake-of-absolute-freedom\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T11:59:32","slug":"kerouac-october-quotation-11-for-the-sake-of-absolute-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/11\/kerouac-october-quotation-11-for-the-sake-of-absolute-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerouac October Quotation #11: For the Sake of Absolute Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It&#39;s October 11th today, Columbus Day.&#0160; This is a month to be savored day by day, hour by hour.&#0160; To aid in the savoring, here is today&#39;s Kerouac quotation, from &quot;The Vanishing American Hobo&quot; in<em> Lonesome Traveler<\/em>, p. 173 of the 1970 Black Cat edition.&#0160; (Purchased my copy in a shop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on 12 April 1973, while on the road, enroute to Boston from Los Angeles.&#0160; From that point of the trip on I had two Kerouac books in my rucksack, the just mentioned and, you guessed it, <em>On the Road<\/em>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is nothing nobler than to put up with a few incoveniences like snakes and dust for the sake of absolute freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s October 11th today, Columbus Day.&#0160; This is a month to be savored day by day, hour by hour.&#0160; To aid in the savoring, here is today&#39;s Kerouac quotation, from &quot;The Vanishing American Hobo&quot; in Lonesome Traveler, p. 173 of the 1970 Black Cat edition.&#0160; (Purchased my copy in a shop on Bourbon Street in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/11\/kerouac-october-quotation-11-for-the-sake-of-absolute-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kerouac October Quotation #11: For the Sake of Absolute Freedom&#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":[92,202,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","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=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}