{"id":5562,"date":"2009-08-13T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/20090813the-joy-of-less\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T23:48:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T22:48:51","slug":"20090813the-joy-of-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/20090813the-joy-of-less\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Being self-employed will always make for a precarious life; these days, it is more uncertain than ever, especially since my tools of choice, written words, are coming to seem like accessories to images.<\/p> <p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/happydays.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/07\/the-joy-of-less\/?em\">The joy of Less<\/a>, Pico Iyer)<\/p> <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Traduit \u00e0 la vol\u00e9e, il dit:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Etre un ind\u00e9pendant c&#8217;est mener une vie pr\u00e9caire; de nos jours, c&#8217;est plus improbable que jamais, particuli\u00e8rement lorsque mes outils de pr\u00e9dilection, les mots \u00e9crits, ne semblent plus que des accessoires pour les images.<\/p> <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Ne vous y fiez pas, l&#8217;article en question est \u00e0 l&#8217;oppos\u00e9 du pessimisme de ce passage, mais \u00e7a sonne si juste&#8230; <em>The joy of less<\/em> est un chant d&#8217;amour (carr\u00e9ment) \u00e0 la simplicit\u00e9:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>(&#8230;) 21 years later, I still live in the vicinity of Kyoto, in a two-room apartment that makes my old monastic cell look almost luxurious by comparison. I have no bicycle, no car, no television I can understand, no media \u2014 and the days seem to stretch into eternities, and I can\u2019t think of a single thing I lack.<\/p> <\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being self-employed will always make for a precarious life; these days, it is more uncertain than ever, especially since my tools of choice, written words, are coming to seem like accessories to images. (The joy of Less, Pico Iyer) Traduit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/20090813the-joy-of-less\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-societe","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}