{"id":1287,"date":"2003-06-13T05:41:14","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/13\/heroes\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:09:00","slug":"heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/13\/heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0679723110\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0679723110\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Except in the life of a hero, the whole world is meaningless. The hero sees values beyond what&#8217;s possible. That&#8217;s the nature of a hero. It kills him, of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; John Gardner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679723110\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"John Gardner's 'Grendel'\">Grendel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except in the life of a hero, the whole world is meaningless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[2342,16],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-john-gardner","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}