{"id":10774,"date":"2011-04-12T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/12\/be-hard-on-yourself\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T06:27:26","slug":"be-hard-on-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/12\/be-hard-on-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Hard on Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The better people are hard on themselves.&#0160; The exemplify the anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/bukowski\/\" target=\"_self\">Bukowski<\/a> property: they try.&#0160; They set themselves difficult tasks and strive to complete them.&#0160; They make intellectual, moral, spiritual,&#0160;and physical demands of themselves.&#0160; They are alive to the discrepancy between what they are and what they ought to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But they also know how to relax and enjoy life.&#0160; Be hard on yourself, but honor yourself and permit yourself a bit of self-congratulation at obstacles overcome and goals attained.&#0160; The true conservative knows how to appreciate and enjoy &#8212; and that includes appreciating and enjoying dear old self.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The better people are hard on themselves.&#0160; The exemplify the anti-Bukowski property: they try.&#0160; They set themselves difficult tasks and strive to complete them.&#0160; They make intellectual, moral, spiritual,&#0160;and physical demands of themselves.&#0160; They are alive to the discrepancy between what they are and what they ought to be. But they also know how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/12\/be-hard-on-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Hard on Yourself&#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":[64,72,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-sage-advice","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","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=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}