{"id":538,"date":"2010-07-27T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2010-07-24T23:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T03:53:28","slug":"to-be-a-strange-old-man-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/to-be-a-strange-old-man-also\/","title":{"rendered":"To be a Strange Old Man Also"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll kill him though,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In all his greatness and his glory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told the boy I was a strange old man,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now is when I must prove it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Ernest Hemingway, <em>The Old Man and the Sea<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll kill him though,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In all his greatness and his glory.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told the boy I was a strange old man,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now is when I must prove it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The thousand [&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":[443,445,444,296],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-aspirations","tag-bros","tag-proving-it-every-time","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"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! -->