{"id":140507,"date":"2022-05-08T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=140507"},"modified":"2022-05-08T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:27:27","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-edward-gibbon-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=140507","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Edward Gibbon on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.&#8221; ~ Edward Gibbon FRS 8 May 1737 \u2013 16 January 1794.  Author of &#8220;The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Gibbon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220px-Edward_Emily_Gibbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.&#8221; ~ Edward Gibbon FRS 8 May 1737 \u2013 16 January 1794. Author of &#8220;The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/220px-Edward_Emily_Gibbon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140509,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140507\/revisions\/140509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}