{"id":1727,"date":"2017-07-29T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2017-07-29T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T15:08:36","slug":"ralph-waldo-emerson-8-november-1838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Waldo Emerson, 8 November 1838"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. No man, I think, had ever a greater well-being with a less desert than I. I can very well afford to be accounted bad or foolish by a few dozen or a few hundred persons[&#8230;] who see myself greeted by the good expectation of so many friends far beyond any power of thought or communication of thought residing in me. Besides, I own, I am often inclined to take part with those who say I am bad or foolish, for I fear I am both. I believe and know there must be a perfect compensation. I know too well my own dark spots. Not having myself attained, not satisfied myself, far from a holy obedience,\u2014 how can I expect to satisfy others, to command their love? A few sour faces, a few biting paragraphs,\u2014is but a cheap expiation for all these short-comings of mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 8 November 1838<\/p>\n<p>Copied from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectidius.com\/Volume_5_1838-1841.pdf\">http:\/\/www.perfectidius.com\/Volume_5_1838-1841.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. No man, I think, had ever a greater well-being with a less desert than I. I can very well afford to be accounted bad or foolish by a few dozen or a few hundred persons[&#8230;] who see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=1727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ralph Waldo Emerson, 8 November 1838&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}