{"id":846,"date":"2015-07-24T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/?p=846"},"modified":"2015-07-24T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:58:53","slug":"ralph-waldo-emerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/logo.gif\" alt=\"logo\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The quotation is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emersoncentral.com\/art.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson&#8217;s ESSAY XII Art<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art<br \/>\nperfected, &#8212; the work of genius. And the individual, in whom simple<br \/>\ntastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower<br \/>\nthe accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of<br \/>\nart. <strong>Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> carry it with us, or we find it not<\/strong>. The best of beauty is a finer<br \/>\ncharm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever<br \/>\nteach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character,<br \/>\n&#8212; a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound,<br \/>\nof the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore<br \/>\nmost intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.&#8221; The quotation is from Emerson&#8217;s ESSAY XII Art: &#8220;In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, &#8212; the work of genius. And the individual, in whom simple tastes and susceptibility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipofreason.com\/Wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}