{"id":10412,"date":"2011-08-25T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/25\/i-stub-my-toe\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T16:59:00","slug":"i-stub-my-toe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/25\/i-stub-my-toe\/","title":{"rendered":"I Stub My Toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I just stubbed a bare toe on the oaken leg of my computer table. But it took a second or two after the moment of impact for the pain to &#39;register.&#39; So I philosophized: if there was no pain at the moment of&#0160;&#0160; impact when the (minor) damage was done, but there is pain now after the fact, then this pain is of no use to me. It&#39;s only a sensation. To hell with it. It has nothing to do with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;It&#39;s only a sensation.&quot; This little reminder is a handy addition to the Stoic&#39;s pharmacia, though it is admittedly no panacea. It can help us buck up under some of life&#39;s stresses and strains.&#0160; Stoicism may not take us very far, but where it does take us is a place worth&#0160;&#0160;visiting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stubbed a bare toe on the oaken leg of my computer table. But it took a second or two after the moment of impact for the pain to &#39;register.&#39; So I philosophized: if there was no pain at the moment of&#0160;&#0160; impact when the (minor) damage was done, but there is pain now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/25\/i-stub-my-toe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Stub My Toe&#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":[72,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-stoicism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","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=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}