{"id":12718,"date":"2009-03-27T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/the-color-of-envy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T13:56:07","slug":"the-color-of-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/the-color-of-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There was a time when I thought that the expression, &#39;He\/She turned green with envy,&#39; was just an expression with no <em>fundamentum in re<\/em>. But one day in graduate school, at a dissertation defense, I observed a particularly vain professor&#39;s face acquire a decidedly greenish tinge as he watched a somewhat pompous but very bright doctoral candidate hold forth in defense of his thesis. The vain professor literally became green with envy as his vanity was outshone by the student&#39;s brilliance.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I then knew that the expression had a basis in reality. But I have never seen the phenomenon since.&#0160; The facial color change, that is.&#0160; If only the emotion were as rare.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when I thought that the expression, &#39;He\/She turned green with envy,&#39; was just an expression with no fundamentum in re. But one day in graduate school, at a dissertation defense, I observed a particularly vain professor&#39;s face acquire a decidedly greenish tinge as he watched a somewhat pompous but very bright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/the-color-of-envy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Color of Envy&#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":[159,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718","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=12718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}