{"id":1979,"date":"2026-01-17T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T23:15:21","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every child deserves&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading some reflections by BC artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Shadbolt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jack Shadbolt<\/a>, and this comment about the loss of childhood innocence really resonated for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Every child deserves a modicum of pure ecstatic happiness in his younger years to give him a balance against the realities of growing up into the final realization of the indifference of the world at large.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/inspiring-teachers-symbolic-and-real\/\">&#8220;Inspired by Teachers, Symbolic or Real&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createastir.ca\/articles\/jack-shadbolt-in-his-words-susan-mertens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Jack Shadbolt: In His Words paints a picture of a man who longed to be understood&#8221;-his-words-susan-mertens<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I&#8217;m reading some reflections by BC artist Jack Shadbolt, and this comment about the loss of childhood innocence really resonated for me: &#8220;Every child deserves a modicum of pure ecstatic happiness in his younger&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","category-philosophy","category-visual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}