{"id":2114,"date":"2022-04-12T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/the-fearful-are-easy-to-control\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:47:29","slug":"the-fearful-are-easy-to-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/the-fearful-are-easy-to-control\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fearful are Easy to Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Is the sheep your totemic animal? A sheep in a mask? A dose of Emerson may help if it is not too late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">&quot;He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.&quot; (Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay &quot;Courage&quot;)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">(I note that the pronoun as it functions in the quoted line has neither an antecedent nor a gender. So while grammatically it is a masculine pronoun, logically it is neither.)&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02942fa45b93200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emerson courage\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02942fa45b93200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02942fa45b93200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Emerson courage\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the sheep your totemic animal? A sheep in a mask? A dose of Emerson may help if it is not too late. &quot;He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.&quot; (Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay &quot;Courage&quot;) (I note that the pronoun as it functions in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/the-fearful-are-easy-to-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fearful are Easy to Control&#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":[415,159,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerson-thoreau-and-friends","category-emotions","category-language-philosophy-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","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=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}