{"id":462,"date":"2010-02-02T23:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T04:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=462"},"modified":"2010-02-03T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:14:14","slug":"quotation-of-the-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Quotation of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Last year, Dr. Esquirol compiled a table of statistics concerning insanity. It reads as follows: &#8220;Driven mad by love: two men, sixty women. Driven mad by religion: six men, twenty women. Driven mad by politics: forty-eight men, three women. Driven mad by financial loss: twenty-seven men, twenty-four women. Driven mad by cause or causes unknown: one man, no women.&#8221; The last statistic represents our poor friend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">(Theophile Gautier, &#8220;The Painter&#8221;, in <em>My Fantoms<\/em>, translated by Richard Holmes)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our poor friend&#8221; is the painter of the title, the unfortunately named Onuphrius Wphly. Have the proportions changed much in the last 178 years? I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Dr. Esquirol compiled a table of statistics concerning insanity. It reads as follows: &#8220;Driven mad by love: two men, sixty women. Driven mad by religion: six men, twenty women. Driven mad by politics: forty-eight men, three women. Driven &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=462\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}