{"id":8574,"date":"2008-11-07T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:09:03","slug":"a-book-of-days-for-1931-november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8574","title":{"rendered":"November 7: &#8220;You are not a fish; how do you know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00086DZDU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00086DZDU\"><i>A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00086DZDU\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NOVEMBER 7, SATURDAY  1931<\/p>\n<p>One day Soshi was walking on the bank of a river with a friend.  &#8220;How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!&#8221; exclaimed Soshi.  His friend spake to him thus: &#8220;You are not a fish; how do you know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?&#8221;  &#8220;You are not myself,&#8221; returned Soshi; &#8220;how do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; OKAKURA KAKUZO, <i>The Book of Tea<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You tell &#8216;im, Soshi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure: NOVEMBER 7, SATURDAY 1931 One day Soshi was walking on the bank of a river with a friend. &#8220;How delightfully the fishes are enjoying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8574\">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":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574"}],"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=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72547,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/72547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}