{"id":6183,"date":"2011-11-02T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=6183"},"modified":"2015-05-15T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:45:23","slug":"george-bernard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/george-bernard-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: George Bernard Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first came across this quotation in Michael J Fox&#8217;s autobiography, &#8220;Lucky Man&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6184\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/george.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px\"><em>\u201cThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first came across this quotation in Michael J Fox&#8217;s autobiography, &#8220;Lucky Man&#8221;: \u201cThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[474,475],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-purpose"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57528,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/57528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}