{"id":40,"date":"2014-11-27T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2014-11-27T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T05:15:00","slug":"carpe-diem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/27\/carpe-diem\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpe Diem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c\u2018Carpe diem\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean seize the day\u2014it means something gentler and more sensible. \u2018Carpe diem\u2019 means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be \u2018cape diem,\u2019 if my school Latin serves. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day\u2019s stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things\u2026Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant\u2014pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8211; Nicholson Baker<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2018Carpe diem\u2019 doesn\u2019t mean seize the day\u2014it means something gentler and more sensible. \u2018Carpe diem\u2019 means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be \u2018cape diem,\u2019 if my school Latin serves. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day\u2019s stem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudpuddlekiss.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}