{"id":308,"date":"2003-08-25T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/08\/25\/106183797195326659\/"},"modified":"2003-08-25T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T19:55:31","slug":"106183797195326659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/106183797195326659\/","title":{"rendered":"106183797195326659"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The art of living<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If living is an art it is a strange one, an art of everything, and particularly of spirited pleasure. Its developed form would involve a number of qualities sewn together: intelligence, charm, good fortune, unforced virtue, along with wisdom, taste, knowledge, understanding, and the recognition of anguish and conflict as part of life. Wealth wouldn&rsquo;t be essential, but the intelligence to accumulate it where necessary might be. The people I can think of who live with talent are the ones who have free lives, conceiving of great schemes and seeing them fulfilled. They are, too, the best company.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanifkureishi.com\/intimacy.html\">Intimacy<\/a>, by  Hanif Kureishi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art of living If living is an art it is a strange one, an art of everything, and particularly of spirited pleasure. Its developed form would involve a number of qualities sewn together: intelligence, charm, good fortune, unforced virtue, along with wisdom, taste, knowledge, understanding, and the recognition of anguish and conflict as part&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/106183797195326659\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">106183797195326659<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}