{"id":935,"date":"2021-08-09T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T04:14:17","slug":"huxley-on-the-consolations-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/09\/huxley-on-the-consolations-of-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Huxley on the Consolations of Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Fifty per cent of the Consolations of Philosophy in seven words. And the other fifty per cent can be expressed in six: Brother, when you\u2019re dead, you\u2019re dead. Or if you prefer, you can make it seven: Brother, when you\u2019re dead, you\u2019re\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0dead.<\/p><cite>Aldous Huxley, <em>The Genius and the Goddess<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Tongue-in-cheek and delivered through one of his fictional characters, but clever \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty per cent of the Consolations of Philosophy in seven words. And the other fifty per cent can be expressed in six: Brother, when you\u2019re dead, you\u2019re dead. Or if you prefer, you can make it seven: Brother, when you\u2019re dead, you\u2019re\u00a0not\u00a0dead. Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess Tongue-in-cheek and delivered through one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-etc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/P1141899-Edit.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-f5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}