{"id":4073,"date":"2015-11-22T09:41:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2015-11-22T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:42:31","slug":"if-they-ever-were-there-they-are-there-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/if-they-ever-were-there-they-are-there-still\/","title":{"rendered":"If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Don&#8217;t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still!<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Autocrat%20of%20the%20Breakfast%20Table\">The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Oliver%20Wendell%20Holmes,%20Sr.\">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StillThere.jpg\" alt=\"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table quote\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StillThere.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/StillThere-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve posted this at the <a title=\"LitQuotes Facebook page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LitQuotesSite\" target=\"_blank\">LitQuotes Facebook page<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LitQuotesSite\" target=\"_blank\">LitQuotes Twitter page<\/a> in case you\u2019d like to share the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever WERE there, they ARE there still!\u00a0~\u00a0The Autocrat of the Breakfast <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[849,351,632,534],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-photos","tag-aging-quotes","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-poetry-quotes","tag-the-autocrat-of-the-breakfast-table"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}