{"id":146269,"date":"2022-08-25T13:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146269"},"modified":"2022-08-25T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:46:04","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-bret-harte-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=146269","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Bret Harte on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Never a lip is curved with pain that can&#8217;t be kissed into smiles again.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bret_Harte\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bret_Harte_by_Napoleon_Sarony_c._1870_albumen_silver_print_from_the_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_NPG-NPG_79_39Harte-000001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bret_Harte_by_Napoleon_Sarony_c._1870_albumen_silver_print_from_the_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_NPG-NPG_79_39Harte-000001.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Bret_Harte_by_Napoleon_Sarony_c._1870_albumen_silver_print_from_the_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_NPG-NPG_79_39Harte-000001-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Never a lip is curved with pain that can&#8217;t be kissed into smiles again.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902 &#8220;A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.&#8221; ~ Bret Harte August 25, 1836 \u2013 May 5, 1902 &#8220;Man has the possibility of existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146270,"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-146269","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\/08\/Bret_Harte_by_Napoleon_Sarony_c._1870_albumen_silver_print_from_the_National_Portrait_Gallery_-_NPG-NPG_79_39Harte-000001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146269","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=146269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146273,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146269\/revisions\/146273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}