{"id":819,"date":"2013-01-02T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=819"},"modified":"2013-01-02T14:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T19:57:50","slug":"plutarch-i-still-grind-and-that-i-do-to-gain-my-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/819\/quotes\/plutarch-i-still-grind-and-that-i-do-to-gain-my-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Plutarch: &#8220;I still grind, and that I do to gain my living&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Antigonus had not for a long time seen Cleanthes, the philosopher, said to him, &#8220;Do you still, Cleanthes, continue to grind?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, sir,&#8221; replied Cleanthes, &#8220;I still grind, and that I do to gain my living, and not to depart from philosophy.&#8221; How great and generous was the courage of this man, who, coming from the mill and the kneading-trough, did with the same hand which had been employed in turning the stone and moulding the dough, write of the nature of the gods, moon, stars, and sun.<\/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>King Antigonus had not for a long time seen Cleanthes, the philosopher, said to him, &#8220;Do you still, Cleanthes, continue to grind?&#8221; &#8220;Yes, sir,&#8221; replied Cleanthes, &#8220;I still grind, and that I do to gain my living, and not to depart from philosophy.&#8221; How great and generous was the courage of this man, who, coming <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/819\/quotes\/plutarch-i-still-grind-and-that-i-do-to-gain-my-living\/' 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":[195,194],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-dough-first-philosophy-later","tag-the-daily-grind","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}