{"id":100462,"date":"2020-09-21T12:19:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=100462"},"modified":"2020-09-21T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:19:42","slug":"todays-quote-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2020\/10\/style-reveals-the-man\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">F.L. Lucas, via Joseph Epstein<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have come passionately to prefer sense to sensibility, and even cynics (if one must have either) to rhapsodists and rapturists. . . . I can only \u00adsuggest that humanity seems throughout its history to have suffered far worse from mental intoxications and fanaticisms than from any rare excess of sober reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sometimes wonder if there have not been two great disasters in the history of modern letters: the first when literature began to be a full-time profession, with writers like Dryden and Lesage, instead of remaining a by-product of more sanely active lives; the second, when the criticism of literature became likewise a profession, and a livelihood for professors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F.L. Lucas, via Joseph Epstein: I have come passionately to prefer sense to sensibility, and even cynics (if one must have either) to rhapsodists and rapturists. . . . I can only \u00adsuggest that humanity seems throughout its history to have suffered far worse from mental intoxications and fanaticisms than from any rare excess of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-q8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100463,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100462\/revisions\/100463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}