{"id":110679,"date":"2022-03-19T16:26:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110679"},"modified":"2022-03-20T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T22:27:58","slug":"saturday-food-for-thought-from-blaise-pascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110679","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Food for Thought from Blaise Pascal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Man does not know in what rank to place himself. He has plainly gone astray and fallen from his true place without being able to find it again. He seeks it anxiously and unsuccessfully everywhere in impenetrable darkness&#8217;&#8211;Pascal Pens\u00e9es, VII<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;&#8230;Who put me here? By whose command and act were this place and time allotted to me?&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PhwB8qN4Nc\">pic.twitter.com\/PhwB8qN4Nc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nature &#x1f314;&#x2728;Hope (@nature_meditati) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nature_meditati\/status\/1505212505693511681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2022<\/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>&#8216;Man does not know in what rank to place himself. He has plainly gone astray and fallen from his true place without being able to find it again. He seeks it anxiously and unsuccessfully everywhere in impenetrable darkness&#8217;&#8211;Pascal Pens\u00e9es, VII<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=110679\">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":[175,186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110679","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=110679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110682,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110679\/revisions\/110682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}