{"id":31002,"date":"2012-05-08T17:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/08\/i-have-nothing-now-but-praise-for-my-life-im-not\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:09:23","slug":"i-have-nothing-now-but-praise-for-my-life-im-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/08\/i-have-nothing-now-but-praise-for-my-life-im-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have nothing now but praise for my life. I\u2019m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can\u2019t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. \u2026 What I dread is the isolation. \u2026 There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I\u2019m ready, I\u2019m ready, I\u2019m ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air in 2011. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/08\/152248901\/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak\">all interviews with Sendak here<\/a>] (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nprfreshair.tumblr.com\/\">nprfreshair<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing now but praise for my life. I\u2019m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can\u2019t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. \u2026 What I dread is the isolation. \u2026 There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/05\/08\/i-have-nothing-now-but-praise-for-my-life-im-not\/\" 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":[8911,8913,2908,8912],"class_list":["post-31002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-i-cant-stop-tearing-up","tag-maurice-sendak","tag-rip","tag-uggghhhh","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31002","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=31002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}