{"id":89060,"date":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=89060"},"modified":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T01:00:00","slug":"this-is-what-i-think-now-that-the-natural-state-of-the-sentient-adult-is-a-qualified-unhappiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/?p=89060","title":{"rendered":"This Is What I Think Now; That The Natural State Of The Sentient Adult Is A Qualified Unhappiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"left\">This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.<br \/>\nI think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are, &#8220;a constant striving&#8221; (as those people say who gain their bread by saying it) only adds to this unhappiness in the end&#8211;that end that comes to our youth and hope.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald<br \/>\n,The Crack-Up<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult&#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-89060","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\/89060","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=89060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89060\/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=89060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sokhanwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}