{"id":8115,"date":"2008-05-31T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2022-10-16T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:52:11","slug":"thought-for-the-day-before-i-go-out-and-meet-all-that-it-has-to-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8115","title":{"rendered":"Thought For the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You must learn <u>now<\/u>, that the important lesson &#8211; as long as you have your health &#8211; is that the divide is not between the servants and the served, between the leisured and the workers, but between those who are <u>interested<\/u> in the world and its multiplicity of forms and forces, and those who merely subsist, worrying and yawning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <i>Christ in the House of Martha and Mary<\/i>, A.S. Byatt (excerpt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6693\">here<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, try to remember what it was like to be <i>her<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bulkhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-181744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bulkhead.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bulkhead-200x148.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bulkhead-400x296.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bulkhead-100x74.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must learn now, that the important lesson &#8211; as long as you have your health &#8211; is that the divide is not between the servants and the served, between the leisured and the workers, but between those who are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181745,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions\/181745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}