{"id":12456,"date":"2009-08-23T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/23\/let-sleeping-dogs-lie-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T13:42:05","slug":"let-sleeping-dogs-lie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/23\/let-sleeping-dogs-lie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">When I asked Harry if he uses the Internet to look up old friends, &quot;Let sleeping dogs lie&quot; was his reply.&#0160;&#0160;His attitude, qualified,&#0160;recommends itself.&#0160; &#0160; The friendships of old were many of them friendships of propinquity.&#0160; They were born of time and place and circumstance, and they died the death of distance, whether temporal or spatial or circumstantial.&#0160; They are relics that can be fingered but not reanimated. They are best left in the boneyard of memory.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I asked Harry if he uses the Internet to look up old friends, &quot;Let sleeping dogs lie&quot; was his reply.&#0160;&#0160;His attitude, qualified,&#0160;recommends itself.&#0160; &#0160; The friendships of old were many of them friendships of propinquity.&#0160; They were born of time and place and circumstance, and they died the death of distance, whether temporal or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/23\/let-sleeping-dogs-lie-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let Sleeping Dogs Lie&#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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","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=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}