{"id":9395,"date":"2012-09-03T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/03\/he-understood-the-principle\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T11:01:58","slug":"he-understood-the-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/03\/he-understood-the-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"He Understood the Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Henry Thoreau was once asked whether he had read&#0160;a newspaper account of a local suicide.&#0160; He replied that he didn&#39;t need to; he understood the principle.&#0160; This anecdote comports comfortably with an observation Henry David makes somewhere in his journal:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Read not <em>The Times<\/em>; read the eternities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Thoreau was once asked whether he had read&#0160;a newspaper account of a local suicide.&#0160; He replied that he didn&#39;t need to; he understood the principle.&#0160; This anecdote comports comfortably with an observation Henry David makes somewhere in his journal: Read not The Times; read the eternities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-emerson-thoreau-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395","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=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}