{"id":10512,"date":"2011-07-24T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/thought-check\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:12:11","slug":"thought-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/thought-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">More important than a &#39;gut check&#39; might be a thought check carried out at regular intervals.&#0160; Say to yourself: what is the quality of my present thoughts?&#0160; Positive or negative? Ennobling or degrading?&#0160; Useless or useful?&#0160; Where are they drifting? What is their likely issue?&#0160; Conducive to happiness or to ever more negativity and misery for myself and others? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why might this be useful?&#0160; Because thought is the seed of word and deed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More important than a &#39;gut check&#39; might be a thought check carried out at regular intervals.&#0160; Say to yourself: what is the quality of my present thoughts?&#0160; Positive or negative? Ennobling or degrading?&#0160; Useless or useful?&#0160; Where are they drifting? What is their likely issue?&#0160; Conducive to happiness or to ever more negativity and misery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/thought-check\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thought Check&#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":[72,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512","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=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}