{"id":10432,"date":"2019-06-17T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10432"},"modified":"2019-06-17T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:11:18","slug":"quote-for-the-day-184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10432","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Death steals everything but our stories.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Harrison<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I became acquainted with the writing of Jim Harrison only recently, and I both regret and wonder why I didn&#8217;t know of him years ago.  After all, he&#8217;s from Michigan and lived for years in the western Upper Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interrogating your memory and trying to place the name, or think of a title, try this: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legends_of_the_Fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Legends of the Fall<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful line that briefly explains a lot.  Essays date themselves; only philosophy undergrads can tell you where the line &#8220;I think, therefore I am&#8221; came from or why it&#8217;s important.  But stories last forever, and their explanatory power is constantly refreshed; <i>Gilgamesh<\/i> &#8212; the oldest extant Western text, from about 2700 B.C. &#8212; is still around, and Ken Ham has built a theme park based on it.<\/p>\n<p>What is more, the unhappy truth is that the majority of people guide their lives by stories.  The <i>Genesis<\/i> story of the Fall is crazy, but simpletons find it, and incoherent anxieties about dark, mysterious forces, a lot more convincing than boring facts about physics and probability.  Stories last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death steals everything but our stories. Jim Harrison I became acquainted with the writing of Jim Harrison only recently, and I both regret and wonder why I didn&#8217;t know of him years ago. After all, he&#8217;s from Michigan and lived &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10432\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10440,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10432\/revisions\/10440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}