{"id":1018,"date":"2005-11-09T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1018"},"modified":"2005-11-09T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T00:18:25","slug":"1018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1018","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lacan.com\/zizek-youmay.htm\">Slavoj \u017di\u017eek on choosing, racism, the Decalogue, sex, etc.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/danielsilliman.blogspot.com\/2005_11_06_danielsilliman_archive.html#113139793792744686\">Daniel Silliman &#038; the theodicy cat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wrote John Ruskin in <em>The Crown of Wild Olive<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNot in war, not in wealth, not in tyranny, was there any happiness to be found for them&mdash;only in kindly peace, fruitful and free. The wreath was to be of <em>wild<\/em> olive, mark you:&mdash;the tree that grows carelessly, tufting the rocks with no vivid bloom, no verdure of branch; only with soft snow of blossom, and scarecely fulfilled fruit, mixed with grey leaf and thorn-set stem; no fastening of diadem for you but with such sharp embroidery! But this, such as it is, you may win, while yet you live; type of grey honour, and sweet rest. Free-heartedness, and graciousness, and undisturbed trust, and requited love, and the sight of the peace of others, and the ministry to their pain; these, and the blue sky above you, and the sweet waters and flowers of the earth beneath; and mysteries and presences, innumerable, of living things, &mdash; may yet be here your riches; untormenting and divine: serviceable for the life that now is; nor, it may be, without promise of that which is to come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek on choosing, racism, the Decalogue, sex, etc. Daniel Silliman &#038; the theodicy cat Wrote John Ruskin in The Crown of Wild Olive: Not in war, not in wealth, not in tyranny, was there any happiness to be found for them&mdash;only in kindly peace, fruitful and free. The wreath was to be of wild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}