{"id":2473,"date":"2021-08-24T04:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/gluttony-another-sign-of-decline\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T04:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T04:42:32","slug":"gluttony-another-sign-of-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/gluttony-another-sign-of-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluttony: Another Sign of Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">So what can we teach the Muslim world?&#0160; How to be gluttons?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Another sign of decline is the proliferation of food shows,&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvfoodmaps.com\/show\/US-Bacon\" target=\"_self\">The U. S. of Bacon<\/a>&#0160;being one of them.&#0160; A big fat &#39;foody&#39; roams the land in quest of diners and dives that put bacon into everything.&#0160; As something of a trencherman back in the day, I understand the lure of the table.&#0160; But I am repelled by the spiritual vacuity of those who wax ecstatic over some greasy piece of crud &#0160;they have just eaten, or speak of some edible item as &#39;to die for.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">It is natural for a beast to be bestial, but not for a man.&#0160; He must degrade and denature himself, and that only a spiritual being can do.&#0160; Freely degrading himself, he becomes&#0160;<em>like<\/em>&#0160;a beast thereby proving that he is &#8212; more than a beast.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what can we teach the Muslim world?&#0160; How to be gluttons? Another sign of decline is the proliferation of food shows,&#0160;The U. S. of Bacon&#0160;being one of them.&#0160; A big fat &#39;foody&#39; roams the land in quest of diners and dives that put bacon into everything.&#0160; As something of a trencherman back in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/gluttony-another-sign-of-decline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gluttony: Another Sign of Decline&#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":[180,154,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-food-and-drink","category-seven-deadly-sins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","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=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}