{"id":108,"date":"2004-04-13T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=108"},"modified":"2004-04-13T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T01:48:10","slug":"cookie-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2004\/04\/13\/cookie-fortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookie Fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThere&#8217;s a Chinese take-out restaurant across the street from my office, and I usually buy my lunch there once or twice a week. Not surprisingly, I am always given a fortune cookie with my meal. Yesterday, my fortune read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<strong>Depart not from the path which fate has you assigned.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI have no intention of challenging the wisdom of that little gem&hellip; but I should say that this restaurant gets the best fortune cookies. They&#8217;re a constant source of joy and enlightenment. I think if I eat there enough, my elevated consciousness may lead me to transcend this earthly existence entirely. Some other little nuggets of distilled wisdom from recently consumed fortune cookies:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wisdom is only found in truth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>To be loved, be lovable.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>You have an unusual equipment for success, use it properly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It tastes sweet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nGo forth in understanding and spiritual harmony.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Broken Social Scene, <i>late night bedroom rock for the missionaries<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Chinese take-out restaurant across the street from my office, and I usually buy my lunch there once or twice a week. Not surprisingly, I am always given a fortune cookie with my meal. Yesterday, my fortune read: Depart not from the path which fate has you assigned. I have no intention of challenging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}