{"id":10898,"date":"2011-02-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/life-is-hard\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T13:00:00","slug":"life-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/life-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Even if your life is easy physically, economically, psychologically, and socially, it is bound to be difficult ethically, religiously, and&#0160; philosophically. Having solved the lower problems, the higher problems <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">loom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Two misfortunes.&#0160; One is to be so burdened with the lower problems that one is never in a position to tackle the higher.&#0160; Think of&#0160;those whose energies are spent battling debt or&#0160;obesity&#0160;or substance abuse.&#0160; The other&#0160;misfortune, or rather mistake, is to have solved the lower problems but to remain at their level without advancing.&#0160; Think of those who pile up loot far in excess of their needs while ignoring the condition of their souls, or the jocks who worship at the shrine of physical hypertrophy while allowing their minds to atrophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The higher his problems, the higher the man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is no escaping problems here below.&#0160; Life is a riddle and a <em>predicament<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if your life is easy physically, economically, psychologically, and socially, it is bound to be difficult ethically, religiously, and&#0160; philosophically. Having solved the lower problems, the higher problems loom. Two misfortunes.&#0160; One is to be so burdened with the lower problems that one is never in a position to tackle the higher.&#0160; Think of&#0160;those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/life-is-hard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life is Hard&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898","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=10898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}