{"id":15243,"date":"2014-08-06T11:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=15243"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:27:35","slug":"reflections-on-brians-potential-as-he-sinks-into-a-beanbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/reflections-on-brians-potential-as-he-sinks-into-a-beanbag\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Brian&#8217;s Potential as He Sinks into a Beanbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness&mdash;seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middleclass lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized&mdash;how their seeds might have sprouted little green shoots of weirdness, or even, with the right sort of antinurture, blossomed into full-blown lunacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Zo\u00c3\u00ab Heller, <em>What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness&mdash;seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middleclass lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2138,2137,2136],"class_list":["post-15243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-antinurture","tag-green-shoots","tag-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->