{"id":11456,"date":"2016-06-05T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2016-06-05T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T20:24:04","slug":"the-mother-of-all-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/the-mother-of-all-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"and how far-reaching our love can be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-mother-of-all-questions\/?single=1\">&#8220;the mother of all questions&#8221;<\/a> by rebecca solnit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Questions about happiness generally assume that we know what a happy life looks like. Happiness is understood to be a matter of having a great many ducks lined up in a row\u00a0\u2014 spouse, offspring, private property, erotic experiences\u00a0\u2014 even though a millisecond of reflection will bring to mind countless people who have all those things and are still miserable.<\/p>\n<p>We are constantly given one-size-fits-all recipes, but those recipes fail, often and hard. Nevertheless, we are given them again. And again and again. They become prisons and punishments; the prison of the imagination traps many in the prison of a life that is correctly aligned with the recipes and yet is entirely miserable.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"init-cap\">T<\/span>he problem may be a literary one: we are given a single story line about what makes a good life, even though not a few who follow that story line have bad lives. We speak as though there is one good plot with one happy outcome, while the myriad forms a life can take flower\u00a0\u2014 and wither\u00a0\u2014 all around us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from &#8220;the mother of all questions&#8221; by rebecca solnit: Questions about happiness generally assume that we know what a happy life looks like. Happiness is understood to be a matter of having a great many ducks lined up in a row\u00a0\u2014 spouse, offspring, private property, erotic experiences\u00a0\u2014 even though a millisecond of reflection will bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11467,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions\/11467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}