{"id":11692,"date":"2010-04-12T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/12\/why-i-like-parties\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:19:09","slug":"why-i-like-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/12\/why-i-like-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Like Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I like parties. I derive considerable satisfaction from not attending them. There is such a thing as the pleasure of conscious avoidance, of knowing that one has wisely escaped a situation likely to be frustrating and unpleasant.&#0160; If others are offended by my nonattendance, that I regret.&#0160; But peace of mind is a higher value than social dissipation &#8212; which is no value at all.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like parties. I derive considerable satisfaction from not attending them. There is such a thing as the pleasure of conscious avoidance, of knowing that one has wisely escaped a situation likely to be frustrating and unpleasant.&#0160; If others are offended by my nonattendance, that I regret.&#0160; But peace of mind is a higher value &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/12\/why-i-like-parties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Like Parties&#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":[69,92,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-autobiographical","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","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=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}