{"id":1971,"date":"2010-05-24T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2010-05-24T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:04:41","slug":"finding-yourself-and-nobody-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/24\/finding-yourself-and-nobody-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding yourself and nobody home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going on a journey to &#8220;find yourself&#8221; and discovering nobody is home sounds like a gag Chesterton would make frequent use of. In fact, he did! And it&#8217;s opposite, which he preferred: the man boards a ship to far off adventure, only to find himself at home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Without self-respect, one runs away to find oneself and finds no one  at home<\/p>\n<p>-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, quoted by Kathleen Norris,  Acedia &amp; Me, p.321<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going on a journey to &#8220;find yourself&#8221; and discovering nobody is home sounds like a gag Chesterton would make frequent use of. In fact, he did! And it&#8217;s opposite, which he preferred: the man boards a ship to far off adventure, only to find himself at home. Without self-respect, one runs away to find oneself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/24\/finding-yourself-and-nobody-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding yourself and nobody home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}