{"id":15,"date":"2004-12-02T12:29:54","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/2004\/12\/02\/george-bernard-shaw\/"},"modified":"2004-12-02T12:29:54","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T16:29:54","slug":"george-bernard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/2004\/12\/02\/george-bernard-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"George Bernard Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a12'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><EM><FONT face=\"Arial\">&#8220;This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no &#8216;brief candle&#8217; to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.&#8221;<BR>-George Bernard Shaw<\/FONT><\/EM><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/omarsultanhaque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}