{"id":464,"date":"2008-05-23T18:26:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2008-05-23T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T01:26:49","slug":"speaking-of-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of miracles&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/harris-miracle.jpg' title='harris-miracle.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/harris-miracle.jpg' alt='harris-miracle.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Cartoon by Sidney Harris<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I came across this quote a couple of days ago at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalblog.com\/\">survivalblog.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.<\/em> &#8212; Albert Einstein<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Einstein was deluded about the all-knowingness of science. I think he understood perfectly well, though he longed to understand, that he didn&#8217;t have a clue why grass grows or why roses bloom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to verify this Einstein quote and see what its context might be, but I&#8217;ve not succeeded so far. Einstein was too complex to go around making up aphorisms. If the quote is authentic, there must have been some interesting context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon by Sidney Harris I came across this quote a couple of days ago at survivalblog.com: There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. &#8212; Albert Einstein I don&#8217;t think Einstein was deluded about the all-knowingness of science. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaking of miracles&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}