{"id":1723,"date":"2022-12-19T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/three-reasons-to-stay-home\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T13:02:55","slug":"three-reasons-to-stay-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/three-reasons-to-stay-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Reasons to Stay Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">These days I have money to travel, time, and opportunities.&#0160; In close&#0160;communion with my &#39;inner Kantian,&#39; however, I resist the blandishments and with them the vexations of spatial translation.&#0160;By my present count, there are three chief reasons to keep to my Southwestern Koenigsberg, the Emersonian, the Pascalian, and my own. The first is that travel does not&#0160; deliver what it promises; the second is that it delivers us unto temptation and vexation; the third is that it knocks us out of our natural orbit, to return to which wastes time.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/three-reasons-to-stay-home?sd=pf\">the rest<\/a> at Substack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days I have money to travel, time, and opportunities.&#0160; In close&#0160;communion with my &#39;inner Kantian,&#39; however, I resist the blandishments and with them the vexations of spatial translation.&#0160;By my present count, there are three chief reasons to keep to my Southwestern Koenigsberg, the Emersonian, the Pascalian, and my own. The first is that travel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/19\/three-reasons-to-stay-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three Reasons to Stay Home&#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":[406,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","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=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}