{"id":1436,"date":"2020-05-15T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:31:27","slug":"an-optimist-is-a-fellow-who-believes-a-housefly-is-looking-for-a-way-to-get-out-george-jean-nathan-american-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/an-optimist-is-a-fellow-who-believes-a-housefly-is-looking-for-a-way-to-get-out-george-jean-nathan-american-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. (George Jean Nathan, american critic)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;<em>Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.<\/em>&#8221; (W. C. Sellar, english humorist)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile: otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?&#8221;<\/em><br>(Samuel Hoffenstein, american writer, poet)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I\u2019m not a fighter, I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.&#8221;<\/em> (Woody Allen, american writer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I don\u2019t know why it is that we\u2019re in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest awhile.&#8221;<\/em> (Max Eastman, american writer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From: &#8220;Stop the World! I Want to Get Off.&#8221;<br>Edited and translated by G\u00e1bor Salamon, Melinda Zalotay, 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.&#8221; (W. C. Sellar, english &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interlanguage.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}