{"id":2762,"date":"2012-06-06T18:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T23:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:52","slug":"rip-ray-bradbury-1920-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/06\/rip-ray-bradbury-1920-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/ray-bradbury-1920%e2%80%932012\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ray_Bradbury.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find out. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done it yet.<\/strong> You must live life at the top of your voice! At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the echoes. I learned a lesson years ago. I had some wonderful Swedish meatballs at my mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s table with my dad and my brother and when I finished I pushed back from the table and said, God! That was beautiful. And my brother said, No, it was good. See the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter how good it is, or how bad\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou did it. At the end of the week you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be damned, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good year.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/ray-bradbury-1920%e2%80%932012\/\">Ray Bradbury, 1920\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2012, The Paris Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Bradbury, author, sci-fi writer extraordinaire, died today, June 6, 2012.  Rest in Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[632,631],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-raybradbury","tag-rip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}