{"id":70523,"date":"2019-03-20T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=70523"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T01:00:35","slug":"pessimist-and-optimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/pessimist-and-optimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Pessimist and Optimist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"581\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Charles-Williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Charles-Williams.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Charles-Williams-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Charles-Williams-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Charles-Williams-600x405.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;&#8230;it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.\u201d<\/p><cite>Charles Williams, War In Heaven<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.\u201d Charles Williams, War In Heaven<\/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":[423],"tags":[5222,5223,5224],"class_list":["post-70523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-charles-williams","tag-optimist","tag-pessimist"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523","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=70523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70525,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523\/revisions\/70525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}