{"id":4811,"date":"2011-08-02T20:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2011-08-02T20:28:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T01:28:02","slug":"qotdinsist-on-yourself-never-imitate-your-own-gift-you-can-present-every-moment-with-the-cumulative-force-of-a-whole-lifes-cultivation-but-of-the-adopted-talent-of-another-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/qotdinsist-on-yourself-never-imitate-your-own-gift-you-can-present-every-moment-with-the-cumulative-force-of-a-whole-lifes-cultivation-but-of-the-adopted-talent-of-another-you\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD::\u201cInsist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life\u2019s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous &#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInsist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life\u2019s cultivation;  &#8230;..<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;.but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.\u201d \u2014 Emerson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInsist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life\u2019s cultivation; &#8230;.. &#8230;&#8230;.but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.\u201d \u2014 Emerson<\/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":[74,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day","category-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","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=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}