{"id":4525,"date":"2009-01-07T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/january-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T23:06:00","slug":"january-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/january-2\/","title":{"rendered":"January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\"><em><\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\"><em>The Snow Man<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">One must have a mind of winter<br \/>To regard the frost and the boughs<br \/>Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;<\/p>\n<p>And have been cold a long time<br \/>To behold the junipers shagged with ice,<br \/>The spruces rough in the distant glitter<\/p>\n<p>Of the January sun; and not to think<br \/>Of any misery in the sound of the wind,<br \/>In the sound of a few leaves,<\/p>\n<p>Which is the sound of the land<br \/>Full of the same wind<br \/>That is blowing in the same bare place<\/p>\n<p>For the listener, who listens in the snow,<br \/>And, nothing himself, beholds<br \/>Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">&#8212; Wallace Stevens<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000099;\"><strong>January Birthdays<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Bernard_Renouvier\">Charles Bernard Renouvier<\/a> (French, born 1815)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 5 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolf_Christoph_Eucken\">Rudolf Christoph Eucken<\/a> (German, born 1846)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 6 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Alexander\">Samuel Alexander<\/a> (British, born 1859)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/h\/hempel.htm\">Carl Gustav Hempel<\/a> (German, born 1905)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 11 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/james\/\">William James<\/a> (American, born 1842)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 12 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/burke\/\">Edmund Burke<\/a> (British, born 1729)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 19 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/montesquieu\/\">Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat <\/a>(French, born 1689) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogen\">D\u014dgen Zenji<\/a> (Japanese, born 1200)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 24 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/wolff-christian\/\">Christian Wolff<\/a> (German, born 1679)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 27 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/schelling\/\">Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling<\/a> (German, born 1775)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000099;\">January 30 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/bradley\/\">F.H. 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