{"id":756,"date":"2010-10-22T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/2010\/10\/22\/in-the-range-of-invention-the-man-of-today-is\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:28:17","slug":"in-the-range-of-invention-the-man-of-today-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/2010\/10\/22\/in-the-range-of-invention-the-man-of-today-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the range of invention\u2026 the man of today is nearer to being a god than at any time in history. Yet never was he less godlike. He accepts and utilizes the miraculous gifts of science unquestioningly: he is without wonder, without awe, reverence, zest, vitality or joy. He draws no conclusions from the past and is utterly unconcerned about the future. He is marking time. That is about the most we can say for him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Henry Miller, The Books in My Life (1969)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the range of invention\u2026 the man of today is nearer to being a god than at any time in history. Yet never was he less godlike. He accepts and utilizes the miraculous gifts of science unquestioningly: he is without wonder, without awe, reverence, zest, vitality or joy. He draws no conclusions from the past &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/2010\/10\/22\/in-the-range-of-invention-the-man-of-today-is\/\" 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":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-quotes","post_format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dans.im\/scrapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}