{"id":2118,"date":"2011-02-10T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2011-09-06T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T03:31:50","slug":"quote-the-true-joy-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/quote-the-true-joy-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote: The True Joy In Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following quote caught my attention today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no \u2018brief candle\u2019 to me. It is sort of a splendid torch, which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~ George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following quote caught my attention today: This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[955,56,326,1160,954],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-joy","tag-life","tag-poet","tag-quote","tag-shaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}