{"id":36646,"date":"2019-04-22T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36646"},"modified":"2019-04-15T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T08:48:33","slug":"a-quote-about-the-importance-of-the-arts-including-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/04\/22\/a-quote-about-the-importance-of-the-arts-including-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote About The Importance Of The Arts, Including Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not a religious person but I believe that art gives something to the soul. It nurtures the finer instincts of human beings.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">~ Denis Frederick Adam, 1924 &#8211; 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Germany, Denis Adam and his family fled the Nazi regime during the 1930s, making a new home in Britain. He served in the RAF during WWII and emigrated to New Zealand in 1946, where he went on to become a successful businessman and one of NZ&#8217;s most noted artistic philanthropists. This quote formed part of his obituary last year, and I really liked this explanation for his lifelong contribution to the arts, including literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a religious person but I believe that art gives something to the soul. It nurtures the finer instincts of human beings.&#8221; ~ Denis Frederick Adam, 1924 &#8211; 2018 &#8212; Born in Germany, Denis Adam and his family fled the Nazi regime during the 1930s, making a new home in Britain. He served in [&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-36646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646","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=36646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36648,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions\/36648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}