{"id":401,"date":"2009-08-06T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-08-05T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:32:22","slug":"qotd-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/qotd-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I will meet October with a great weight off my chest. I will meet December with the novel mostly done. In between now and then I just want to be happy and content and useful. The last two weeks have been a bit unfortunate, with the Black Dog prowling and growling in the bushes outside the reach of the campfire light; I just lost enthusiasm for my enthusiasms. I think it\u2019s lifted. The worst thing about Depression isn\u2019t the sense that you\u2019re ac-centuating the negative, it\u2019s that you\u2019re seeing things the way they really are, stripped of the illusions you use every day to divert yourself from the Yawning Maw of Futility. It\u2019s the wind that blows off the snow and reveals the stone. <\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleat\/?p=3334\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2009-08-04<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will meet October with a great weight off my chest. I will meet December with the novel mostly done. In between now and then I just want to be happy and content and useful. The last two weeks have been a bit unfortunate, with the Black Dog prowling and growling in the bushes outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,41],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-quotations","tag-depression"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}