{"id":3522,"date":"2019-10-29T04:57:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/we-are-not-here-to-have-a-good-time\/"},"modified":"2019-10-29T04:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:57:07","slug":"we-are-not-here-to-have-a-good-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/we-are-not-here-to-have-a-good-time\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are not here to have a good time.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The lady to whom I said the above replied, &quot;Then what are we here for?&quot; Her reply showed her cluelessness, so I said nothing more. An appropriate response would have been, &quot;Indeed, but then why do people fill their waning days with idle talk and card games?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Some people are built too close to the ground for serious conversation.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">To be a philosopher one must be a bit of a <em>Luftmensch<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lady to whom I said the above replied, &quot;Then what are we here for?&quot; Her reply showed her cluelessness, so I said nothing more. An appropriate response would have been, &quot;Indeed, but then why do people fill their waning days with idle talk and card games?&quot; Some people are built too close to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/we-are-not-here-to-have-a-good-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;We are not here to have a good time.&#8221;&#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-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}