{"id":3811,"date":"2019-04-28T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T13:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/28\/pettiness\/"},"modified":"2019-04-28T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T13:21:40","slug":"pettiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/28\/pettiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pettiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">We are petty in our loves, hates, fears, hopes, interests, desires and aversions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Spirit says to Flesh, &quot;How petty you are! Flesh replies, &quot;You can look down your long nose at human pettiness only so long as I allow you to. A couple of well-placed blows would suffice to reduce you, Noble One, who depend on me, to a writhing animal pleading for mercy.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The gist of it: The pettiness of the human animal is excusable. It is easy to be great-souled when all is well with the mortal coil. But the least little thing can start it unraveling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Schopenhauer said it well when he said that the world is beautiful to behold but terrible to be a part of.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are petty in our loves, hates, fears, hopes, interests, desires and aversions. Spirit says to Flesh, &quot;How petty you are! Flesh replies, &quot;You can look down your long nose at human pettiness only so long as I allow you to. A couple of well-placed blows would suffice to reduce you, Noble One, who depend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/28\/pettiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pettiness&#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-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}