{"id":8708,"date":"2008-12-12T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:09:35","slug":"a-book-of-days-for-1931-december-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8708","title":{"rendered":"December 12: &#8220;a tinkling of the camel-bell&#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>DECEMBER 12, SAT.  1931<\/p>\n<p>Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause<br \/>\nHe noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.<br \/>\nAll other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell,<br \/>\nA breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; SIR RICHARD BURTON, <i>The Kasidah<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from Christopher Morley&#8217;s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure: DECEMBER 12, SAT. 1931 Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8708\">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":[160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708"}],"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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24319,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/24319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}