{"id":1707,"date":"2022-12-28T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/continence\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T07:03:28","slug":"continence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/continence\/","title":{"rendered":"Continence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">There is continence sexual and gustatory. Custody of the eyes and of the heart are forms of continence.&#0160; Continence should also extend to rebuttals, replies, ripostes, rejoinders, responses, and reactions. Deny yourself the desire for vindication, and getting in the last word.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Better retraction than self-serving reaction. The self denied is the ego; the self that denies is the soul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is continence sexual and gustatory. Custody of the eyes and of the heart are forms of continence.&#0160; Continence should also extend to rebuttals, replies, ripostes, rejoinders, responses, and reactions. Deny yourself the desire for vindication, and getting in the last word.&#0160;Better retraction than self-serving reaction. The self denied is the ego; the self that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/28\/continence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Continence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}