{"id":12426,"date":"2009-09-02T12:34:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/a-boomer-and-his-experiences\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:34:24","slug":"a-boomer-and-his-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/a-boomer-and-his-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boomer and His Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Do you help your neighbor to help your neighbor, or to add the <em>experience<\/em> of helping your neighbor to your collection of experiences?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From an advertisement: &quot;Ever since we invented the first personal shredder, Fellowes has been dedicated to improving every aspect of the shredding experience.&quot;&#0160; <\/font><font face=\"Georgia\">The shredding <em>experience<\/em>?&#0160; Now we boomers have done all manner of wild and crazy things in quest of experience, but does anyone shred for the <em>experience<\/em> of it?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A culture of narcissism in which the focus is on the self and his experiences as opposed to&#0160;the world and its objects.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you help your neighbor to help your neighbor, or to add the experience of helping your neighbor to your collection of experiences? From an advertisement: &quot;Ever since we invented the first personal shredder, Fellowes has been dedicated to improving every aspect of the shredding experience.&quot;&#0160; The shredding experience?&#0160; Now we boomers have done all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/a-boomer-and-his-experiences\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Boomer and His Experiences&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","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=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}