{"id":565,"date":"2008-05-07T09:03:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=565"},"modified":"2008-05-07T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T15:03:32","slug":"a-pessimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"A Pessimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>54\u00a0 bar steep rise 29.73 7mph NW dewpoint 39 Beltane<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Hare Moon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scoundrels are always sociable.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/65\/sc\/Schopenh.html\">Arthur Schopenhauer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schopenhauer insisted that reason alone would not explain the human reality.\u00a0 He added passion and instinct to the neatly circumscribed world of the Enlightenment.\u00a0 As he did so, he became profoundly pessimistic about the overall human condition.\u00a0\u00a0He did, however, add a bit of solace to the world of us introverts in the quote.<\/p>\n<p>Cool today so I&#8217;m headed outside to continue transplanting daylilies.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also going to plant vegetables since the near term forecast doesn&#8217;t have anything remotely approaching 32 at night.\u00a0 Generally, if we can make it past May 15th, we&#8217;re in good shape for the growing season.<\/p>\n<p>Too nice to stay in and write.\u00a0 Out I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54\u00a0 bar steep rise 29.73 7mph NW dewpoint 39 Beltane \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Hare Moon &#8220;Scoundrels are always sociable.&#8221; &#8211; Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer insisted that reason alone would not explain the human reality.\u00a0 He added passion and instinct to the neatly circumscribed world of the Enlightenment.\u00a0 As he did so, he became profoundly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Pessimist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}