{"id":150228,"date":"2022-11-02T09:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=150228"},"modified":"2022-11-02T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:59:06","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-from-daniel-boone-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=150228","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom from Daniel Boone on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou see now how little nature requires, to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things, and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence, and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briers and thorns.\u201d ~ Daniel Boone November 2, 1734 \u2013 September 26, 1820<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, &#8220;I can&#8217;t say I was ever lost, but I was once bewildered for about 3 days.\u201d ~ Daniel Boone November 2, 1734 \u2013 September 26, 1820<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Boone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Chester_Harding_-_Daniel_Boone_-_NPG.2015.102_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou see now how little nature requires, to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things, and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150229,"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-150228","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\/11\/Chester_Harding_-_Daniel_Boone_-_NPG.2015.102_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150228","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=150228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150230,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150228\/revisions\/150230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}