{"id":11200,"date":"2010-10-20T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/20\/rise-and-shine-with-manny\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:21:22","slug":"rise-and-shine-with-manny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/20\/rise-and-shine-with-manny\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise and Shine With Manny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0133f5392632970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kant-3\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0133f5392632970b\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0133f5392632970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Kant-3\" \/><\/a> For, &quot;The bed is a nest for a whole flock of illnesses.&quot; (Immanuel Kant, <em>The Conflict of the Faculties<\/em>, tr. Gregor, p. 183)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I read Kant and about Kant at an impressionable age, and it really is a pleasure plowing through his texts again as I have been doing recently. I suspect my early rising goes back to my having read, at <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">age 20, that Kant was wont to retire at 10 PM and arise at 5 AM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Soon enough, however, I was out-Kanting Kant with a 4 AM arisal from the bed of sloth. And when I moved out here to the Zone, 4 became 2:30. (A Zone Man must make an early start especially on outdoor activities before Old Sol gets too uppity.) I&#39;ve tried 2 AM, the time the Trappist monks of Merton&#39;s day got up, but I couldn&#39;t hack it. 2:30 is early enough. (I don&#39;t know whether the Trappist regimen is as rigorous today as it was in the &#39;40s and &#39;50s, and I&#39;m not sure I want to know.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For, &quot;The bed is a nest for a whole flock of illnesses.&quot; (Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties, tr. Gregor, p. 183) I read Kant and about Kant at an impressionable age, and it really is a pleasure plowing through his texts again as I have been doing recently. I suspect my early rising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/10\/20\/rise-and-shine-with-manny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rise and Shine With Manny&#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":[92,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-kant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","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=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}