{"id":12571,"date":"2009-06-23T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/of-email-and-doing-nothing\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T12:27:02","slug":"of-email-and-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/of-email-and-doing-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Of E-Mail and Doing Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I do appreciate e-mail, and I consider it rude not to respond; but lack of time and energy in synergy with congenital inefficiency conspire to make it difficult for me to answer everything. I am also temperamentally disinclined to acquiesce in mindless American hyperkineticism, in accordance with the Italian saying:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><font face=\"Georgia\">Dolce Far Niente<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Sweet To Do Nothing<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">which saying, were it not for the inefficiency lately mentioned, would have been by now inscribed above my stoa. My paternal grandfather had it emblazoned on his pergola, and more &#39;nothing&#39; transpires on my stoa than ever did beneath his pergola.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">So time each day must be devoted to &#39;doing nothing&#39;: meditating, traipsing around in the local mountains, contemplating sunrises and moonsets, sunsets and moonrises, and taking naps, naps punctuated on one end by bed-reading and on the other by yet more coffee-drinking. Without a sizeable admixture of such &#39;nothing&#39; I cannot see how a life would be worth living.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do appreciate e-mail, and I consider it rude not to respond; but lack of time and energy in synergy with congenital inefficiency conspire to make it difficult for me to answer everything. I am also temperamentally disinclined to acquiesce in mindless American hyperkineticism, in accordance with the Italian saying: Dolce Far Niente Sweet To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/of-email-and-doing-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of E-Mail and Doing Nothing&#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":[92,318,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-leisure-and-work","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571","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=12571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}