{"id":7041,"date":"2015-07-11T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/11\/the-strange-tale-of-chris-knight-the-central-maine-hermit-thief\/"},"modified":"2015-07-11T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:16:40","slug":"the-strange-tale-of-chris-knight-the-central-maine-hermit-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/11\/the-strange-tale-of-chris-knight-the-central-maine-hermit-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Tale of Chris Knight, the Central Maine Hermit-Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A hell of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/the-last-true-hermit\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a>.&#0160; This one goes into the <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/questers-and-other-oddballs\/\" target=\"_self\">Questers and Other Oddballs<\/a> file.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Anyone who reveals what he\u2019s learned, Chris told me, is not by his definition a true hermit. Chris had come around on the idea of himself as a hermit, and eventually embraced it. 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Anyone who reveals what he\u2019s learned, Chris told me, is not by his definition a true hermit. Chris had come around on the idea of himself as a hermit, and eventually embraced it. When I mentioned Thoreau, who spent two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/11\/the-strange-tale-of-chris-knight-the-central-maine-hermit-thief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Strange Tale of Chris Knight, the Central Maine Hermit-Thief&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,221,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-psychology-and-personality-typology","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","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=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}