{"id":648,"date":"2011-02-10T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T18:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=648"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:59:34","slug":"analects-of-the-core-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/10\/analects-of-the-core-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Thoreau on confidence and success"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Henry David  Thoreau, from the Conclusion to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0691096120\/\"><i>Walden<\/i><\/a>, which book students will be reading this spring in <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc202\">CC202: From the Enlightenment to Modernity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. &#8212; Henry David Thoreau, from the Conclusion to Walden, which book students will be reading this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3831,4804,4805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}