{"id":7703,"date":"2019-02-20T05:37:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2019-02-20T05:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:37:01","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-why-being-optimistic-is-a-radical-choice-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/guillermo-del-toro-why-being-optimistic-is-a-radical-choice-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro: Why Being Optimistic Is a Radical Choice &#124; Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Optimism is radical. It is the hard choice, the brave choice. And it is, it seems to me, most needed now, in the face of despair\u2014just as a car is most useful when you have a distance to close. Otherwise it is a large, unmovable object parked in the garage.These days, the safest way for someone to appear intelligent is being skeptical by default. We seem sophisticated when we say \u201cwe don\u2019t believe\u201d and disingenuous when we say \u201cwe do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5520554\/guillermo-del-toro-radical-optimism\/\">Guillermo del Toro: Why Being Optimistic Is a Radical Choice | Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimism is radical. It is the hard choice, the brave choice. And it is, it seems to me, most needed now, in the face of despair\u2014just as a car is most useful when you have a distance to close. Otherwise it is a large, unmovable object parked in the garage.These days, the safest way for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/guillermo-del-toro-why-being-optimistic-is-a-radical-choice-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guillermo del Toro: Why Being Optimistic Is a Radical Choice &#124; Time&#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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","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=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}