{"id":4449,"date":"2018-07-04T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/the-body-temple-or-amusement-park\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T14:11:58","slug":"the-body-temple-or-amusement-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/the-body-temple-or-amusement-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Body: Temple or Amusement Park?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad37b888c200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bourdain body not a temple\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad37b888c200d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad37b888c200d-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Bourdain body not a temple\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">As I <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2018\/06\/man-does-not-live-by-bread-alone.html\">noted earlier<\/a>, the celebrity chef, &#39;foodie,&#39; and gastro-tourist, Anthony Bourdain, hanged himself in his hotel room recently.&#0160; I speculated that the man was spiritually adrift. &quot;If Bourdain had a spiritual anchor, would he have so frivolously offed himself, as he apparently did?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">When I wrote that I was unaware of the above quotation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Now I know the man was spiritually adrift. The view he gives vent to is utter nihilism.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Perhaps later I will expand on the thought.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted earlier, the celebrity chef, &#39;foodie,&#39; and gastro-tourist, Anthony Bourdain, hanged himself in his hotel room recently.&#0160; I speculated that the man was spiritually adrift. &quot;If Bourdain had a spiritual anchor, would he have so frivolously offed himself, as he apparently did?&quot; When I wrote that I was unaware of the above quotation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/the-body-temple-or-amusement-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Body: Temple or Amusement Park?&#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":[154,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-nihilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","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=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}