{"id":31,"date":"2013-10-03T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T03:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joesays.ca\/?p=31"},"modified":"2015-12-04T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T04:08:47","slug":"a-selection-of-random-thoughts-which-i-deem-worthy-of-passing-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"a selection of random thoughts which i deem worthy of passing along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;In the ideal state, the education of children will be the highest business of government.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n-Aristotle (via Annabel Lyon in The Golden Mean)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I am not an optimist.\u00a0 I am a prisoner of hope.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/strong>&#8211; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, responding to a question from UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson on how he managed to maintain his positive outlook no matter how bleak the prospects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA lot of people in our industry haven\u2019t had very diverse experiences, so they don\u2019t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Steve Jobs, pinpointing one of the many factors that distinguished him from most of his colleagues<\/p>\n<p><strong>To produce is to survive;\u00a0 return to the countryside.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis directive came from the government of Viet Nam shortly after they won the war, encouraging their citizens to leave the cities and go back to farming&#8230; think about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The true luxury in life is to not set an alarm clock and to stay in pajamas as long as you like.\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From this follows a complete renaissance of rural living. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In the distant future, the need for cities will disappear.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Nicholas Negroponte, WIRED Magazine\u00a0 Dec. 1998<br \/>\nI have managed largely to achieve the conditions described in the first line, but I don&#8217;t have much confidence that the rest will come to pass anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the ideal state, the education of children will be the highest business of government.&#8221; -Aristotle (via Annabel Lyon in The Golden Mean) &#8220;I am not an optimist.\u00a0 I am a prisoner of hope.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, responding to a question from UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson on how he managed to maintain his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-filosofy-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joesays.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}