{"id":9662,"date":"2012-02-09T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2015-02-26T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:49:51","slug":"wise-words-on-wednesday-too-easily-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/wise-words-on-wednesday-too-easily-pleased\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Too easily pleased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55709\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Lewis.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Lewis.jpg 850w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Lewis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Lewis-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.&#8221; &#8211; C.S. Lewis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.<\/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":[218],"class_list":["post-9662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-cs-lewis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662","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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55710,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions\/55710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}