{"id":1859,"date":"2022-09-24T04:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/downplay-both\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T04:11:24","slug":"downplay-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/downplay-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Downplay Both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">If you downplay your wins, downplay your losses. The pain of defeat is worse than the pleasure of victory is good. But you have the power&#0160; to regard them as equal. In some measure the pain of loss can be lessened. The Stoic therapy is no cure, but it is a palliative. If our predicament is a splitting headache, said therapy is a couple of aspirin. Take it and them for what they are worth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you downplay your wins, downplay your losses. The pain of defeat is worse than the pleasure of victory is good. But you have the power&#0160; to regard them as equal. In some measure the pain of loss can be lessened. The Stoic therapy is no cure, but it is a palliative. If our predicament &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/downplay-both\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downplay Both&#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":[72,106,155,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice","category-spiritual-exercises","category-spiritual-hygiene","category-stoicism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}