{"id":191829,"date":"2021-08-23T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=191829"},"modified":"2021-08-14T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T08:40:41","slug":"thank-god-men-cannot-fly-and-lay-waste-the-sky-as-well-as-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/thank-god-men-cannot-fly-and-lay-waste-the-sky-as-well-as-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817\u00a0\u2013 6 May 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcendentalism\" >transcendentalist<\/a>. He is best known for his book <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walden\" >Walden<\/a><em>, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Resistance_to_Civil_Government\" >Resistance to Civil Government<\/a><em> (also known as <\/em><strong>Civil Disobedience<\/strong><em>), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thoreau.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-95591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thoreau-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thoreau-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/thoreau.png 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 \u2013 6 May 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":95591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[1223,2255],"class_list":["post-191829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorable-quotes","tag-henry-david-thoreau","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}