{"id":3236,"date":"2020-03-29T12:28:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/sweet-solitude\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:28:45","slug":"sweet-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/sweet-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Patrick Kurp of <em>Anecdotal Evidence<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/how-sweet-how-passing-sweet-is-solitude.html\">an introvert too<\/a>, not that I am surprised:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Our time has come \u2013 introverts, that is. We who are happiest with our thoughts, who shun the mob, for whom \u201csocial\u201d is code for \u201ctedious,\u201d who never exchange high-fives or fist bumps, who remain in our rooms with Pascalian contentedness, who are stubbornly unclubbable, who have the good taste never to be the life of the party \u2013 we are fulfilling our civic and ethical obligations simply by being ourselves. Social distancing is second nature, old hat, the common sense of sensible people. Extroverts, we\u2019ve always known, are dangerous.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">He then goes on to quote a guy I know.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence is an introvert too, not that I am surprised: Our time has come \u2013 introverts, that is. We who are happiest with our thoughts, who shun the mob, for whom \u201csocial\u201d is code for \u201ctedious,\u201d who never exchange high-fives or fist bumps, who remain in our rooms with Pascalian contentedness, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/sweet-solitude\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweet Solitude&#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":[278,465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introversion","category-solitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","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=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}