{"id":12109,"date":"2009-11-29T04:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/dis-tracted\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T04:43:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T04:43:51","slug":"dis-tracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/dis-tracted\/","title":{"rendered":"Dis-tracted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">We are pulled towards the world, towards property, progeny, position, power, popularity, pleasure. But in some of us the pull toward the spirit is stronger and will triumph &#8212; in the end. Meanwhile we are pulled apart, <em>dis-tracted<\/em>, torn between lust for the world and love of the spirit. This is &#39;par for the course&#39; and &#39;it comes with the terrain.&#39; There&#39;s no turning back now. We must advance.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pulled towards the world, towards property, progeny, position, power, popularity, pleasure. But in some of us the pull toward the spirit is stronger and will triumph &#8212; in the end. Meanwhile we are pulled apart, dis-tracted, torn between lust for the world and love of the spirit. This is &#39;par for the course&#39; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/29\/dis-tracted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dis-tracted&#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":[306,105,203,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism-and-quietism","category-meditation","category-questers-and-other-oddballs","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109","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=12109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}