{"id":1259,"date":"2023-09-06T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/alain-on-monasticism\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:36:15","slug":"alain-on-monasticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/alain-on-monasticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain on Monasticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Stack<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/alain-on-monasticism?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\"> leader<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The other morning I recalled the passage in Alain where he recorded his boyhood visit to the abbey at La Trappe and his visceral revulsion at the life of the monks. So I pulled his<em>&#0160;On Happiness<\/em> from the shelf and to my surprise opened right to the passage in question. Coincidence, or synchronicity? I&#39;ll leave that question for later. Here is the passage:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stack leader.&#0160; The other morning I recalled the passage in Alain where he recorded his boyhood visit to the abbey at La Trappe and his visceral revulsion at the life of the monks. So I pulled his&#0160;On Happiness from the shelf and to my surprise opened right to the passage in question. Coincidence, or synchronicity? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/alain-on-monasticism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alain on Monasticism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,358,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-sense-of-life-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}