{"id":3002,"date":"2020-07-17T05:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/17\/animal-and-spirit\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T05:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:03:20","slug":"animal-and-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/17\/animal-and-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal and Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Yesterday morning I reviewed our quarterly statements and calculated our net worth. I then turned to Alphonsus Liguori, <em>Preparation for Death<\/em>, and re-read underlined passages as a fitting prelude to a 75-minute session on the black mat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is appropriate&#0160; for an animal to concern itself with material things; it is also appropriate for a spirit to meditate on the ultimate nullity of all material things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Foolish it is to ignore either.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I reviewed our quarterly statements and calculated our net worth. I then turned to Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death, and re-read underlined passages as a fitting prelude to a 75-minute session on the black mat. It is appropriate&#0160; for an animal to concern itself with material things; it is also appropriate for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/07\/17\/animal-and-spirit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Animal and Spirit&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","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=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}