{"id":102731,"date":"2021-06-03T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102731"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:58:37","slug":"thursday-food-for-thought-from-t-h-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102731","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Food for Thought from T H White"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The best thing for being sad,&#8221; replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, &#8220;is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then\u2014to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn&#8230;.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;T.H. White, <strong>The Once and Future King<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A drawing a day.<br \/>Day 437. Merlyn and Archimedes. \u201cThe best thing for being sad,\u201d replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, \u201cis to learn something. That\u2019s the only thing that never fails&#8230;Learn why the world wags and what wags it.\u201d (T. H. White was born OTD in 1906.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rqWiPAegaT\">pic.twitter.com\/rqWiPAegaT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edward Carey (@EdwardCarey70) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdwardCarey70\/status\/1398728984838410249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The best thing for being sad,&#8221; replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, &#8220;is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102731\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,133,113,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-poetry-literature","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102739,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102731\/revisions\/102739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}