{"id":89013,"date":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=89013"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","slug":"unlike-his-compatriots-many-of-whom-were-still-in-their-mid-twenties-adolescent-posturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=89013","title":{"rendered":"Unlike His Compatriots &#8211; Many Of Whom Were Still, In Their Mid-Twenties, Adolescent Posturers,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left\">Unlike his compatriots &#8211; many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers,<br \/>\n doomed to futility &#8211; he had an engaging earnestness about him. Unlike them, he realized his incompleteness as a person and strove to overcome that. One of the ways in which he did that was by reading. He didn&#8217;t read much, or too widely, but attentively, looking for instruction, hints for self-improvement, and he read serious books.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Pankaj Mishra<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike his compatriots &#8211; many of whom were still, in their mid-twenties, adolescent posturers, doomed to futility &#8211; he had an engaging earnestness about him&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivational-quotes","wpcat-405-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}