{"id":104,"date":"2004-06-02T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=104"},"modified":"2004-06-02T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T17:25:59","slug":"the-only-true-life-i-have-is-the-life-of-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/06\/02\/the-only-true-life-i-have-is-the-life-of-my-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"The only true life i have is the life of my brain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeddy.org\/moi\/utah.txt\">transcriptions of Utah Philips&#8217; Stories<\/a>, from which this, a favourite of mine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>That&#8217;s when [Fry Pan Jack] told me &#8211; you know, he&#8217;d been tramping since 1927 -he said, &#8220;I told myself in &#8217;27, if I cannot dictate the conditions of my labor, I will henceforth cease to work.&#8221;  Hah!  You don&#8217;t have to go to college to figure these things out, no sir!  He said, &#8220;I learned when I was young that the only true life I had was the life of my brain.  But if it&#8217;s true the only real life I have is the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that at the end of the day they will give it back in an unmutilated condition?&#8221; Fat chance!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found some transcriptions of Utah Philips&#8217; Stories, from which this, a favourite of mine: That&#8217;s when [Fry Pan Jack] told me &#8211; you know, he&#8217;d been tramping since 1927 -he said, &#8220;I told myself in &#8217;27, if I cannot dictate the conditions of my labor, I will henceforth cease to work.&#8221; Hah! You don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}