{"id":2081,"date":"2011-03-27T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2011-03-27T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:23:10","slug":"ode-to-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Ode to joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/mar\/27\/schumacher-david-cameron-small-beautiful\" target=\"_blank\">A piece in today&#8217;s Observer<\/a> about EF Schumacher, a man with an economic vision, which appears to be coming into vogue. Schumacher is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecobooks.com\/books\/smbeaut.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Small is Beautiful,&#8217;<\/a> a book which has been sitting on my shelf untouched for some time, but whose message already reverberates. The subtitle captures the essence of the text he poses: &#8216;a study of economics as if people mattered.&#8217; In one of his earliest lectures, in March 1948, Schumacher suggested Man&#8217;s task was twofold: to &#8216;fully develop oneself,&#8217; and second, &#8216;to form one&#8217;s relationship to other people \u2013 family, groups, one&#8217;s countrymen, mankind \u2013 sensibly, ethically, or expressed quite simply, with joy.&#8217; Amen. The article is fascinating, charting his experiences as a German living in England during the Second World War, who was interned in camps and suffered various forms of hardship and abuse, but used this period to explore a way of Being and interaction with his fellow man which became instrumental in the ideas he was able to articulate. He espoused a questioning of belief in all forms, whilst tapping into the ancient wisdom of mankind. A life, well lived.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/schumacher-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2082\" title=\"schumacher-007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/schumacher-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/schumacher-007.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/schumacher-007-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A piece in today&#8217;s Observer about EF Schumacher, a man with an economic vision, which appears&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writings","tag-ef-schumacher","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}