{"id":4834,"date":"2021-08-01T23:33:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2021-08-01T23:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:33:22","slug":"1-august-eugenes-birthday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"1 AUGUST \u2013 EUGENE\u2019S BIRTHDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-meta\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In the references that we have to Eugene\u2019s birthday, we see them as occasions for reflection on his life and its direction. Two examples from his diary:<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>August 1, 1841. Nothing special today, except that I am ending my 59th year. Thus a person draws near to the end almost without being aware of it. We grow old only one day at a time; but then your anniversary comes to remind you that you are one year older. Each year the number increases and the result is astonishment\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Journal, le 1 aout 1841, EO XX<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Then ten years later:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>August 1, 1851. Today I begin my 70th year. How many and how great the graces since the day of my birth\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Journal, le 1 aout 1851, EO XXI<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cGod gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Voltaire<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the references that we have to Eugene\u2019s birthday, we see them as occasions for reflection on his life and its direction. Two examples from his diary: August 1, 1841. Nothing special today, except that I am ending my 59th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4834\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}