{"id":17270,"date":"2012-11-24T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=17270"},"modified":"2012-11-13T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T09:52:01","slug":"a-quote-for-saturday-courtesy-of-ralph-waldo-emerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/a-quote-for-saturday-courtesy-of-ralph-waldo-emerson\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote for Saturday: Courtesy of Ralph Waldo Emerson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Insist on yourself. Never imitate.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~ Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I saw this on a friend&#8217;s calendar, and liked it so much I had to share, especially as it seemed good for life, not just for writing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And of course Emerson <em>was<\/em> an essayist and poet as well as a philosopher&#8212;but to find out more about him you can read both what Wikipedia has to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson\">here<\/a>, and also the American Transcendentalist Web, <a href=\"http:\/\/transcendentalism.tamu.edu\/authors\/emerson\/\">here<\/a>. (Emerson was an&#8212;or the&#8212;leading American Transcendentalist of the 19th century.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. &#8220;Insist on yourself. Never imitate.&#8221; ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson &#8212; I saw this on a friend&#8217;s calendar, and liked it so much I had to share, especially as it seemed good for life, not just for writing. \ud83d\ude09 And of course Emerson was an essayist and poet as well as a philosopher&#8212;but to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17275,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17270\/revisions\/17275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}