{"id":8606,"date":"2008-11-17T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8606"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:08:42","slug":"a-book-of-days-for-1931-november-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8606","title":{"rendered":"November 17: &#8220;Where man is not, nature is barren.&#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 17, TUESDAY  1931<\/p>\n<p>The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.<br \/>\nPrudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.<br \/>\nHe who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.<br \/>\nA fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.<br \/>\nEternity is in love with the productions of time.<br \/>\nHe who has suffer&#8217;d you to impose on him, knows you.<br \/>\nWhere man is not, nature is barren.<br \/>\nTruth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; WILLIAM BLAKE, <i>Proverbs of Hell<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, Blake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7296\">I love you so<\/a>.<\/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 17, TUESDAY 1931 The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606"}],"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=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110144,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions\/110144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}