{"id":29817,"date":"2012-06-06T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/06\/everyone-must-leave-something-behind-when-he-dies\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:38:37","slug":"everyone-must-leave-something-behind-when-he-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/06\/everyone-must-leave-something-behind-when-he-dies\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you\u2019re there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Ray Bradbury,<em> Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for leaving behind what you did.<br \/>\u2014Daisy<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/06\/06\/154424247\/fahrenheit-451-author-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91\"><br \/>\u2018Fahrenheit 451\u2019 Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/npr.tumblr.com\/\">npr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It is because of this man that I know there will always be books, that summer tastes like dandelion wine, and that you should never trust a carnival.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/on-tempo-off-beat.tumblr.com\/\">on-tempo-off-beat<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/06\/everyone-must-leave-something-behind-when-he-dies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}