{"id":2886,"date":"2020-09-29T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:04:20","slug":"how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"How did We get to be so Proud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Recalling our miserably indigent origin in&#0160;the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In a line often (mis)attributed to St. Augustine, but&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bernard_of_Clairvaux\" target=\"_self\">apparently<\/a>&#0160;from Bernard of Clairvaux,&#0160;<em>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/em>: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">So inauspicious a beginning for so proud a strut upon life&#39;s stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Pride, result of the Fall, comes before a fall &#8212; into the grave.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling our miserably indigent origin in&#0160;the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important? In a line often (mis)attributed to St. Augustine, but&#0160;apparently&#0160;from Bernard of Clairvaux,&#0160;Inter faeces et urinam nascimur: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160; So inauspicious a beginning for so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/29\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How did We get to be so Proud?&#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":[39,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-seven-deadly-sins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}