{"id":5401,"date":"2017-06-24T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/24\/epitaph-on-a-pessimist\/"},"modified":"2017-06-24T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T17:15:33","slug":"epitaph-on-a-pessimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/24\/epitaph-on-a-pessimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Epitaph on a Pessimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I&#39;m Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;I&#39;ve lived without a dame<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">From youth-time on: and would to God<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;My dad had done the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928.&#0160;<em>The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs<\/em>, ed. Grigson, 1977, p. 186.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd, &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;I&#39;ve lived without a dame From youth-time on: and would to God &#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;My dad had done the same. Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928.&#0160;The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, ed. Grigson, 1977, p. 186.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,316,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-natalism","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc","category-pessimism-and-optimism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}