{"id":10086,"date":"2011-12-11T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/11\/socializing-as-self-denial-2\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:57:34","slug":"socializing-as-self-denial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/11\/socializing-as-self-denial-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Socializing as Self-Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">You don&#39;t really want to go to that Christmas party where you will eat what you don&#39;t need to eat, drink what you don&#39;t need to drink, and dissipate your inwardness in pointless chit-chat.&#0160; But you were invited and your nonattendance&#0160;may&#0160;be taken amiss.&#0160; So you remind yourself that self-denial is good and that it is useful from time to time to practice the art of donning and wearing the mask of a &#39;regular guy.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For the step into the social is by dissimulation. Necessary to the art of life is knowing how to negotiate the social world and pass yourself off&#0160;under various guises and disguises.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#39;t really want to go to that Christmas party where you will eat what you don&#39;t need to eat, drink what you don&#39;t need to drink, and dissipate your inwardness in pointless chit-chat.&#0160; But you were invited and your nonattendance&#0160;may&#0160;be taken amiss.&#0160; So you remind yourself that self-denial is good and that it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/11\/socializing-as-self-denial-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Socializing as Self-Denial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}