{"id":12071,"date":"2009-12-01T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T09:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/01\/most-common-thoreau-misquotation\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T09:56:50","slug":"most-common-thoreau-misquotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/01\/most-common-thoreau-misquotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Common Thoreau Misquotation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It rankles this curmudgeon when the following beautiful line of Henry David Thoreau is butchered:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In wildness is the preservation of the world.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Again and again, people who cannot read what is on the page substitute &#39;wilderness&#39; for &#39;wildness.&#39; People see what they want to see, or expect to see. Here is an example of double butchery I found recently:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">In wilderness is the preservation of Mankind.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">(Warren Macdonald, <strong>A Test of Will<\/strong>, Greystone Books, 2004, p. 145.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It rankles this curmudgeon when the following beautiful line of Henry David Thoreau is butchered: In wildness is the preservation of the world. Again and again, people who cannot read what is on the page substitute &#39;wilderness&#39; for &#39;wildness.&#39; People see what they want to see, or expect to see. Here is an example of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/01\/most-common-thoreau-misquotation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Most Common Thoreau Misquotation?&#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":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerson-thoreau-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071","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=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}