{"id":195,"date":"2025-04-25T04:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/look-on-the-bright-side\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T04:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T04:55:19","slug":"look-on-the-bright-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/look-on-the-bright-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Look on the Bright Side!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The world is rife with pathologies of all sorts: spiritual, psychological, moral, and medical. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">But it&#39;s all grist for the thinker&#39;s mill. That is the bright side. One can allow oneself to become depressed at how pathetic we all are &#8212; in different ways and to different degrees &#8212; or one can cultivate wonder at our strange predicament and get to work understanding it, thereby squeezing the joys of theory from practical misery.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is rife with pathologies of all sorts: spiritual, psychological, moral, and medical. But it&#39;s all grist for the thinker&#39;s mill. That is the bright side. One can allow oneself to become depressed at how pathetic we all are &#8212; in different ways and to different degrees &#8212; or one can cultivate wonder at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/look-on-the-bright-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Look on the Bright Side!&#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":[39,207,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-pessimism-and-optimism","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}