{"id":1206,"date":"2023-10-08T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/a-dangerous-property-of-worldly-things\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:33:46","slug":"a-dangerous-property-of-worldly-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/a-dangerous-property-of-worldly-things\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Property of Worldly Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Al-Ghazzali, <em>The Alchemy of Happiness<\/em>, p. 48:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Another dangerous property of worldly things is that they appear at first as mere trifles, but each of these so-called &#39;trifles&#39; branches out into countless ramifications until they swallow up the whole of a man&#39;s time and energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness, p. 48: Another dangerous property of worldly things is that they appear at first as mere trifles, but each of these so-called &#39;trifles&#39; branches out into countless ramifications until they swallow up the whole of a man&#39;s time and energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-happiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","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=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}