{"id":61855,"date":"2022-01-18T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61855"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:47:11","slug":"qotd-the-role-of-fate-in-mans-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/01\/18\/qotd-the-role-of-fate-in-mans-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The role of fate in man&#8217;s affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it&#8217;s Shakespeare who says that it&#8217;s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.<\/p>\n<p>P.G. Wodehouse, &#8220;Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest&#8221;, <em>My Man Jeeves<\/em>, 1919.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it&#8217;s Shakespeare who says that it&#8217;s always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. P.G. Wodehouse, &#8220;Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest&#8221;, My Man Jeeves, 1919.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[57,41],"tags":[82,1402],"class_list":["post-61855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-murphy","tag-pgwodehouse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-g5F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61855","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=61855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71202,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61855\/revisions\/71202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}