{"id":7868,"date":"2012-11-20T07:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T12:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2012-11-20T07:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T12:42:29","slug":"no-posts-until-next-week-and-a-poem-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7868","title":{"rendered":"No Posts Until Next Week (and a Poem for Thanksgiving)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving in the United States this Thursday, so I am enjoying all this &#8220;free&#8221; time to catch up on things unrelated to teaching. As a consequence, there will not be any new posts until November 26.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I was recently reminded of <a title=\"John Donne\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Donne\" target=\"_blank\">John Donne<\/a>&#8216;s famous Meditation 17:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">No man is an island,<br \/>\nEntire of itself.<br \/>\nEach is a piece of the continent,<br \/>\nA part of the main.<br \/>\nIf a clod be washed away by the sea,<br \/>\nEurope is the less.<br \/>\nAs well as if a promontory were.<br \/>\nAs well as if a manor of thine own<br \/>\nOr of thine friend&#8217;s were.<br \/>\nEach man&#8217;s death diminishes me,<br \/>\nFor I am involved in mankind.<br \/>\nTherefore, send not to know<br \/>\nFor whom the bell tolls,<br \/>\nIt tolls for thee.<\/p>\n<p>Famous, of course, because Ernest Hemingway used it as the epigraph to\u00a0<em>For Whom the Bell Tolls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So with that said, remember to be grateful for all the good things in your life and to realize that you depend on others more than you realize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving in the United States this Thursday, so I am enjoying all this &#8220;free&#8221; time to catch up on things unrelated to teaching. As<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7868\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Posts Until Next Week (and a Poem for Thanksgiving)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[30,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-22U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}