{"id":237,"date":"2012-08-06T03:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2012-08-06T03:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T03:01:47","slug":"a-quote-from-thoreau-the-art-of-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-quote-from-thoreau-the-art-of-being\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quote from Thoreau &#8211; the Art of Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me . . . . We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look . . . . To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. <\/p>\n<p>Thoreau, Walden <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me . . . . We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-quote-from-thoreau-the-art-of-being\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-attitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}