{"id":3276,"date":"2014-04-02T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2014-04-02T07:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:59:02","slug":"tent-poster-life-is-a-torch-george-bernard-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/tent-poster-life-is-a-torch-george-bernard-shaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Tent Poster &#8211; &#8220;Life is a Torch&#8221; &#8211; George Bernard Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.<\/p>\n<p>I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-\u00a0 George Bernard Shaw Preface in book called: \u201cMan and Superman: a Comedy and Philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-02-life-is-a-torch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3285 aligncenter\" alt=\"Shaw\" src=\"http:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-02-life-is-a-torch1-300x112.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-02-life-is-a-torch1-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-02-life-is-a-torch1-1024x382.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-02-life-is-a-torch.pdf\">Printable Tent Poster <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/tent-poster-life-is-a-torch-george-bernard-shaw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}