{"id":2387,"date":"2021-10-22T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/food-medicine-drug-or-fuel\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:02:43","slug":"food-medicine-drug-or-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/food-medicine-drug-or-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Food: Medicine, Drug, or Fuel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In an excess of the ascetic, the author of <em>The Confessions<\/em> in Book Ten, Chapter 31 recommends taking food as medicine. At the opposite extreme we find those for whom it is a soporific, a sedative, an escape from reality, a drug. The wise tread the middle path: food is fuel.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Eat in quantity and quality precisely that alone which optimally fuels <em>fratre asino<\/em> so that he may bear up well in this vale where his services are indispensable.&#0160; &#0160;Properly fortified, he will carry your load over many a <em>pons asinorum<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an excess of the ascetic, the author of The Confessions in Book Ten, Chapter 31 recommends taking food as medicine. At the opposite extreme we find those for whom it is a soporific, a sedative, an escape from reality, a drug. The wise tread the middle path: food is fuel.&#0160;&#0160; Eat in quantity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/22\/food-medicine-drug-or-fuel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Food: Medicine, Drug, or Fuel?&#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":[335,154,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-food-and-drink","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","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=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}