{"id":1499,"date":"2017-08-25T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T19:41:59","slug":"henry-david-thoreau-however-mean-your-life-is-meet-it-and-live-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1499\/quotes\/henry-david-thoreau-however-mean-your-life-is-meet-it-and-live-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry David Thoreau: However mean your life is, meet it and live it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man&#8217;s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.<br \/>\n\u2013W<em>alden<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2017\/1499\/quotes\/henry-david-thoreau-however-mean-your-life-is-meet-it-and-live-it\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}