{"id":147131,"date":"2022-09-09T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=147131"},"modified":"2022-09-09T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:01:49","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-leo-tolstoy-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=147131","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Leo Tolstoy on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.&#8221; ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 \u2013 20 November 1910<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sit on a man&#8217;s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means &#8211; except by getting off his back.&#8221; ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 \u2013 20 November 1910<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We lost because we told ourselves we lost.&#8221; ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 \u2013 20 November 1910<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.&#8221; ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 \u2013 20 November 1910<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.&#8221; ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 \u2013 20 November 1910<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.&#8221; ~ Leo Tolstoy 9 September 1828 \u2013 20 November 1910 &#8220;I sit on a man&#8217;s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147139,"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-147131","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\/09\/L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsky.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147131","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=147131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147140,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147131\/revisions\/147140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}