{"id":252,"date":"2010-12-03T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-02-26T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T03:49:31","slug":"252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/252\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Joy in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"triangle-border\">\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Life is no \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBrief Candle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handling it on to future generations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skitch.com\/glenesharp\/rdyaa\/skitched-20101203-080345\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20101203-tge5twaqxwe1q2g84h3wy3swbn.preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><cite><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\">George Bernard Shaw<\/a> (26 July 1856 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.<br \/>\n<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/252\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The True Joy in Life<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sUBG8-252","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}