{"id":154876,"date":"2020-01-10T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=154876"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:37:45","slug":"teenage-me-so-ignorant-happy-in-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/01\/10\/teenage-me-so-ignorant-happy-in-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage me so ignorant, happy in stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the ambition is gone what\u2019s left to carry on with except the day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The things which make me happy how are what made me happy in much simpler days.<br><br>I cannot change the world for all its faults because I cannot change the people in it.<br><br>You can lead people to knowledge, you can show them proof, but they can\u2019t be made to accept it. So the best liars rule the world with impunity because you can&#8217;t fight stupidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teenage me so ignorant, happy in stupidity. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the ambition is gone what\u2019s left to carry on with except the day today. The things which make me happy how are what made me happy in much simpler days. I cannot change the world for all its faults because I cannot change the people in it. You can lead people to knowledge, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/01\/10\/teenage-me-so-ignorant-happy-in-stupidity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenage me so ignorant, happy in stupidity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Ei0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":158737,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/03\/21\/stupidity\/","url_meta":{"origin":154876,"position":0},"title":"Stupidity","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently idiots are still buying up every available roll of toilet paper? 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