{"id":10754,"date":"2011-04-20T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/soul-food-5\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:04:21","slug":"soul-food-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/soul-food-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">People are generally aware of the importance of good nutrition, physical exercise and all things health-related. They understand that what they put into their bodies affects their physical health.&#0160; Underappreciated is a truth just as, if not more important: that what one puts into one&#39;s mind affects one&#39;s mental and spiritual health. The soul has its foods and its poisons just as the body does. This&#0160;&#0160; simple truth, known for centuries, goes unheeded while liberals fall all over each other climbing aboard the various environmental and health bandwagons.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Second-hand smoke the danger of which is negligible much exercises our leftist pals while the soul-destroying toxicity of the mass &#39;entertainment&#39; media concerns them not at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why are those so concerned with physical toxins so tolerant of cultural toxins? This is another example of what I call misplaced moral enthusiasm. You worry about global warming and sidestream smoke when you give no thought to the soul, its foods, and its poisons? You liberals are a strange breed of cat, crouching behind the First Amendment, quick to defend every form of cultural pollution under the rubric &#39;free speech.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are generally aware of the importance of good nutrition, physical exercise and all things health-related. They understand that what they put into their bodies affects their physical health.&#0160; Underappreciated is a truth just as, if not more important: that what one puts into one&#39;s mind affects one&#39;s mental and spiritual health. The soul has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/soul-food-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soul Food&#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":[154,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754","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=10754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}