{"id":3327,"date":"2017-11-30T21:40:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2017-11-30T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T05:49:25","slug":"d-g-wills-montaigne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/d-g-wills-montaigne\/","title":{"rendered":"D.G. Wills & Montaigne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly before leaving San Diego, I decided to have a “treat yo self”<\/em><\/a> kind of afternoon. That meant:<\/p>\n

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  1. having a\u00a0cappuccino at the Pannikin<\/a> in downtown La Jolla with all the cute umbrellas hanging around, and then<\/li>\n
  2. walking next door to the D.G. Wills bookstore<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    \"\"<\/a>Inside the D.G. Wills bookstore. I’m looking out from the literature section.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    The owner is D.G. Wills (or Dennis if you’re on a first name basis). The first time I met him he was watching a football game on an old analog TV with an antenna. I forget who played who, but it must have been important. He has something to say for just about any book I decide to get, which makes me wonder about how much reading he’s done over his lifetime. This time it was\u00a0The Complete Essays of Montaigne,\u00a0<\/em>translated by Donald Frame.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThirty-seven years ago I challenged myself to read an essay from Montaigne each day. Then the phone rang.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    He didn’t challenge me to read an essay from Montaigne a day, but I’m going to pretend he did. 107 essays total sounds like a lot, but with titles like “Of\u00a0Friendship”, “Of Smells”, <\/em>and “Let Business\u00a0Wait\u00a0Till Tomorrow”<\/em>, what’s not to look forward to?<\/p>\n

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    All I know about Montaigne is that he's a French nobleman who fell off his horse during the 1500s, nearly died, and then took on a more irreverent approach to philosophy, writing, and life.\u00a0He's been dead for centuries, *and* his thoughts on everyday matters are fun to read.\r\n\r\nCan the same be said for this blog? uhhh maybe if I have grandkids or something.<\/pre>\n
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    Shortly before leaving San Diego, I decided to have a “treat yo self” kind of afternoon. That meant: having a\u00a0cappuccino at the Pannikin in downtown La Jolla with all the cute umbrellas hanging around, and then walking next door to the D.G. Wills bookstore. Inside the D.G. Wills bookstore. I’m looking out from the literature … Continue reading “D.G. Wills & Montaigne”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-RF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}