{"id":983,"date":"2011-06-24T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=983"},"modified":"2011-06-25T02:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T02:17:24","slug":"john-steinbeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2011\/06\/john-steinbeck\/","title":{"rendered":"John Steinbeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are lonesome animals.<br \/>\nWe spend our life trying to be less lonesome.<br \/>\nOne of our ancient methods is to tell a story,<br \/>\nbegging the listener to say<br \/>\n&#8212; and to feel \u2013<br \/>\n\u201cYes, that&#8217;s the way it is,<br \/>\nor at least that&#8217;s the way I feel it.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not as alone as you thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Awe of Words,\u201d <em>The Exonian<\/em>, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University\u00a0 (1930)<\/p>\n<p>This Glimpse of Solace was sent in by Ellen K. McKnight (friend of <em>Solace in So Many Words<\/em>). She came by it in Dora Marks&#8217; book: <em>Inside Story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are lonesome animals. We spend our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say &#8212; and to feel \u2013 \u201cYes, that&#8217;s the way it is, or at least that&#8217;s the way I feel it. You&#8217;re not as alone as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,344,84,345,342,7,16,351,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-a-slice-of-solace","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-dora-marks","9":"tag-ellen-t-mcknight","10":"tag-inside-story","11":"tag-john-steinbeck","12":"tag-solace","13":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","14":"tag-the-exonian","15":"tag-writing","16":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}