{"id":4408,"date":"2011-03-06T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2011-03-06T22:12:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:12:46","slug":"best-readrepostletters-of-note-be-your-own-self-love-what-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/06\/best-readrepostletters-of-note-be-your-own-self-love-what-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Read::rePost::Letters of Note: Be your own self. Love what YOU love."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Transcript<br \/>\nray bradbury enterprises<br \/>\n[Redacted]<br \/>\nlos angeles, california 90064<br \/>\ndear william stanhope:<br \/>\nmost important decision i ever made came at age 9&#8230;i was collecting BUCK ROGERS comic strips, 1929, when my 5th grade classmates made fun of me. I tore up the strips. A week later, broke into tears. Why was I crying? I wondered. Who die? Me, was the answer. I have torn up the future. What to do about it? Start collecting BUCK ROGERS again. Fall in love with the Future! I did just that. And after that never listened to one damnfool idiot classmate who doubted me! What did I learn? To be myself and never let others, prejudiced, interfer with my life. Kids, do the same. Be your own self. Love what YOU love.<br \/>\nBest wishes,<br \/>\n(Signed, &#8216;RAY B.&#8217;)<br \/>\nBradbury<br \/>\n10\/28\/91<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/02\/be-your-own-self-love-what-you-love.html\">Letters of Note: Be your own self. Love what YOU love.<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We kill the light of truth we have because<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcript ray bradbury enterprises [Redacted] los angeles, california 90064 dear william stanhope: most important decision i ever made came at age 9&#8230;i was collecting BUCK ROGERS comic strips, 1929, when my 5th grade classmates made fun of me. I tore up the strips. A week later, broke into tears. Why was I crying? I wondered. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/06\/best-readrepostletters-of-note-be-your-own-self-love-what-you-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Read::rePost::Letters of Note: Be your own self. Love what YOU love.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,75,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-quote","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}