{"id":180,"date":"2018-01-09T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/?p=180"},"modified":"2018-01-09T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:10:57","slug":"candide-by-voltaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Candide By Voltaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in &#8220;the best of all possible worlds.&#8221; On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher&#8217;s immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that &#8212; contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss &#8212; all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire&#8217;s most celebrated work.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-180-1\" autoplay preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/007_candide_Chapter6.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/007_candide_Chapter6.mp3\">https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/007_candide_Chapter6.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooks.com\/audiobook\/candide\/321038\">BUY HERE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in &#8220;the best of all possible worlds.&#8221; On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,31],"tags":[70,71],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classics-antiquity","category-fiction","tag-candide-audiobooks","tag-candide-by-voltaire-audiobook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearvoices.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}