{"id":11724,"date":"2010-04-02T18:52:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/02\/people-are-what-they-are\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:52:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T18:52:52","slug":"people-are-what-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/02\/people-are-what-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are What They Are . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">&#0160;. . . and they don&#39;t change. No doubt there are exceptions. Few and&#0160;far between, they prove the rule.&#0160; As a rule of thumb, one most useful&#0160; in the art of living, assume that Schopenhauer was right in his doctrine of the unalterability of character. Never enter into an important relationship with a person, marriage for example, with the thought that you will change the person to your liking. That is highly unlikely. What will happen is that you will induce a change in yourself, one in the direction of frustration and disappointment.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;. . . and they don&#39;t change. No doubt there are exceptions. Few and&#0160;far between, they prove the rule.&#0160; As a rule of thumb, one most useful&#0160; in the art of living, assume that Schopenhauer was right in his doctrine of the unalterability of character. Never enter into an important relationship with a person, marriage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/02\/people-are-what-they-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People Are What They Are . . .&#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":[69,39,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724","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=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}