{"id":2834,"date":"2020-11-08T04:12:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T04:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/why-are-lawyers-so-unhappy\/"},"modified":"2020-11-08T04:12:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T04:12:53","slug":"why-are-lawyers-so-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/why-are-lawyers-so-unhappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Lawyers so Unhappy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Martin P. Seligman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawyerswithdepression.com\/articles\/why-are-lawyers-so-unhappy\/\">explains<\/a>. &#39;Seligman&#39;! Now there&#39;s an aptronym for you.<em> Selig<\/em> is German for happy, blessed, blissful, although it can also mean late (<em>verstorben<\/em>) and tipsy (<em>betrunken<\/em>). So Seligman is the happy man or happy one.&#0160;<em>Nomen est omen<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Give some careful thought to what you name your kid. &#39;Chastity&#39; may have an anti-aptronymic effect. &#0160;As for anti-aptronyms, I was introduced a while back to a hulking biker who rejoiced under the name of &#39;Tiny.&#39; &#0160;A student of mine&#39;s name for me was &#39;Smiley&#39; to underscore my serious-as-cancer demeanor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin P. Seligman explains. &#39;Seligman&#39;! Now there&#39;s an aptronym for you. Selig is German for happy, blessed, blissful, although it can also mean late (verstorben) and tipsy (betrunken). So Seligman is the happy man or happy one.&#0160;Nomen est omen? Give some careful thought to what you name your kid. &#39;Chastity&#39; may have an anti-aptronymic effect. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/why-are-lawyers-so-unhappy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are Lawyers so Unhappy?&#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":[222,6,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness","category-language-matters","category-psychology-and-personality-typology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","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=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}