{"id":13761,"date":"2025-11-27T06:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13761"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:23:29","slug":"in-the-interests-of-prandial-harmony-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/in-the-interests-of-prandial-harmony-3\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Interests of Prandial Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13762\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Happy-T-giving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/>Some of you will be at table with relatives today.\u00a0<em>Experientia docet<\/em>: Occasions of putative conviviality can easily degenerate into nastiness. A prophylactic to consider is the avoidance of all talk of politics and religion. But to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton, What else is there to talk about? An exaggeration, no doubt, but God and Man in relation to the State does cover a lot of ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so I cannot recommend that you bring up the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/25\/opinion\/sen-mark-kelly-is-doubling-down-on-his-self-dishonor-over-the-disobey-video\/\">behavior<\/a> of Arizona senator Mark Kelly unless you and your relatives and friends are all of the same mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you will be at table with relatives today.\u00a0Experientia docet: Occasions of putative conviviality can easily degenerate into nastiness. A prophylactic to consider is the avoidance of all talk of politics and religion. But to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton, What else is there to talk about? An exaggeration, no doubt, but God and Man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/in-the-interests-of-prandial-harmony-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the Interests of Prandial Harmony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761","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=13761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13763,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions\/13763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}