{"id":11918,"date":"2010-01-13T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/jabez-clapp-a-philosopher-of-the-superstitions\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T18:40:07","slug":"jabez-clapp-a-philosopher-of-the-superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/jabez-clapp-a-philosopher-of-the-superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Jabez Clapp: A &#8216;Philosopher&#8217; of the Superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The mountains attract misfits, oddballs, outcasts, outlaws, questers of various stripes, and even a few &#39;philosophers.&#39;&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superstitionmountain.info\/chronicles\/2007\/10_01_07.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> is the story of one of them, one of many who found his way into the mountains&#0160;but never found his way out.&#0160; He who marches to the beat of a different drummer, in the famous phrase of Henry David Thoreau, runs certain risks.&#0160;&#0160;He may march himself right into Kingdom Come.&#0160; But the very same Thoreau also observed that a man sits as many risks as he runs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Which risks to sit and which to run is for the individual to decide.&#0160; There is&#0160; no algorithm.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mountains attract misfits, oddballs, outcasts, outlaws, questers of various stripes, and even a few &#39;philosophers.&#39;&#0160; Here is the story of one of them, one of many who found his way into the mountains&#0160;but never found his way out.&#0160; He who marches to the beat of a different drummer, in the famous phrase of Henry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/01\/13\/jabez-clapp-a-philosopher-of-the-superstitions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jabez Clapp: A &#8216;Philosopher&#8217; of the Superstitions&#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":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918","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=11918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}