{"id":2666,"date":"2008-01-28T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/the-science-of-enjoying-life\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:56:09","slug":"the-science-of-enjoying-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/the-science-of-enjoying-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The science of enjoying life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&ldquo;Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered &ldquo;useless,&rdquo; will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.media.mit.edu\/SIMPLICITY\/\">John Maeda<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered &ldquo;useless,&rdquo; will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/the-science-of-enjoying-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The science of enjoying life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8329,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/8329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}