{"id":2719,"date":"2020-04-05T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/highest-of-arts\/"},"modified":"2020-04-05T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T11:30:00","slug":"highest-of-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/04\/highest-of-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest of Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re currently in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 the Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 and one&#39;s thoughts understandably skew darker during these uncertain times.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Though it may be challenging to achieve, Henry David Thoreau wisely counseled cultivating an optimistic outlook:<\/p>\n<p><em>I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look &#8230; To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;re currently in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 the Coronavirus outbreak \u2013 and one&#39;s thoughts understandably skew darker during these uncertain times.&#0160; Though it may be challenging to achieve, Henry David Thoreau wisely counseled cultivating an optimistic outlook: I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}