{"id":12199,"date":"2009-11-18T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/eric-hoffer-on-contentment\/"},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T12:36:47","slug":"eric-hoffer-on-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/eric-hoffer-on-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Hoffer on Contentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Eric Hoffer as quoted in James D. Koerner, <strong>Hoffer&#39;s America<\/strong> (Open Court, 1973), p. 25:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I need little to be contented. Two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing each day. This to me is a full life.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">And this after a full day at the San Francisco waterfront unloading ships.&#0160; And we&#39;re talking cheap tobacco smoked after a meal of Lipton soup and Vienna sausage&#0160;in a humble apartment in a marginal part of town.&#0160; Hoffer, who had it tough indeed, had the wisdom to be satisfied with what he had.&#0160; Call it the paradox of plenty: those who had to struggle in the face of adversity developed character and worth, while those with opportunities galore and an easy path became slackers and malcontents and &#39;revolutionaries.&#39; &#0160; Adding to the paradox is that those who battled adversity learned gratitude while those who had it handed to them became ingrates.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hoffer as quoted in James D. Koerner, Hoffer&#39;s America (Open Court, 1973), p. 25: I need little to be contented. Two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing each day. This to me is a full life. And this after a full day at the San Francisco waterfront &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/18\/eric-hoffer-on-contentment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eric Hoffer on Contentment&#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":[222,549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-hoffer-eric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199","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=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}