{"id":9256,"date":"2012-10-29T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/29\/forty-years-ago-today\/"},"modified":"2012-10-29T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T17:00:10","slug":"forty-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/29\/forty-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">My journal&#0160; entry for 29 October 1972 was just this: &quot;To live a philosophical life in a tumultuous, uncertain world is my goal.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I pulled it off.&#0160; I found my niche.&#0160; I achieved my goal.&#0160;&#0160; But to achieve goals one must first posit them, and herein lies another reason to maintain a journal.&#0160; One plans and projects.&#0160; And then, years later, one enjoys the fruition of those long past projections.&#0160;<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My journal&#0160; entry for 29 October 1972 was just this: &quot;To live a philosophical life in a tumultuous, uncertain world is my goal.&quot; I pulled it off.&#0160; I found my niche.&#0160; I achieved my goal.&#0160;&#0160; But to achieve goals one must first posit them, and herein lies another reason to maintain a journal.&#0160; One plans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/29\/forty-years-ago-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forty Years Ago Today&#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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256","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=9256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}