{"id":84509,"date":"2020-09-08T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84509"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:09:13","slug":"fools-and-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/fools-and-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Fools and Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, September 8, 1860<\/p>\n<h3>Seven Born Fools.<\/h3>\n<p>1. The angry man\u2014who sets his own house on fire that he may burn his neighbor&#8217;s.<br \/>\n2. The envious man\u2014who cannot enjoy life because others do.<br \/>\n3. The robber\u2014who, for the consideration of a few dollars, gives the world permission to hang him.<br \/>\n4. The hypochondriac\u2014whose highest happiness consists in that of rendering himself miserable.<br \/>\n5. The jealous man\u2014who poisons his own banquet and then eats of it.<br \/>\n6. The miser\u2014who starves himself to death in order that his heirs may feast.<br \/>\n7. The slanderer\u2014who tells tales for the sake of giving his enemies an opportunity of proving him a liar.<\/p>\n<h3>Eight Useful Rules.<\/h3>\n<p>1. Let not the wisdom of the world be your guide.<br \/>\n2. Let not the way of the world be your rule.<br \/>\n3. Let not the wealth of the world be your chief good.<br \/>\n4. Let not the cares of the world encumber you.<br \/>\n5. Let not the comforts of the world entangle you.<br \/>\n6. Let not the crosses of the world disquiet you.<br \/>\n7. Be not too fond of life.<br \/>\n8. Be not too fearful of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Little Rock] Arkansas True Democrat, September 8, 1860 Seven Born Fools. 1. The angry man\u2014who sets his own house on fire that he may burn his neighbor&#8217;s. 2. The envious man\u2014who cannot enjoy life because others do. 3. The robber\u2014who, for the consideration of a few dollars, gives the world permission to hang him. 4. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Arkansas-True-Democrat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}