{"id":225,"date":"2012-01-23T22:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2012-01-23T22:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:59:21","slug":"a-defence-of-skeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"A Defence of Skeletons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_228\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Skeletons\" title=\"Skeletons\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/img_20120123_028499.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skeletons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For Christmas I got a book of essays by G. K. Chesterton. I&#8217;ve only read a few of them, because I have a long shelf of books I&#8217;m trying to get through and I add to it faster than I can read them. I think this one is next on my list, though. The second essay in the book, and one which I <em>have<\/em> read (I sneak one now and then), is called <em>A Defence of Skeletons<\/em>, written in 1901. In it, he talks about the skeletons of trees, as well as our own skeletons. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/12245\/12245-h\/12245-h.htm#A_DEFENCE_OF_SKELETONS\">You can read the whole thing here<\/a>. Anyway, I was thinking about that as I looked out the window of my office at the skeletons of trees outside. I think they are quite beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas I got a book of essays by G. K. Chesterton. I&#8217;ve only read a few of them, because I have a long shelf of books I&#8217;m trying to get through and I add to it faster than I can read them. I think this one is next on my list, though. The second &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}