{"id":5770,"date":"2017-02-16T04:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/life-as-a-self-improvement-project\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T04:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T04:31:23","slug":"life-as-a-self-improvement-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/life-as-a-self-improvement-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Life as a Self-Improvement Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You are well-advised to view your life as a self-improvement project, but beware of viewing the lives of others likewise. I mean: as <em>your&#0160;<\/em>improvement project.&#0160;If you are drawn to a member of the opposite sex, be sure you are drawn to her for what she is, not for what you fancy you can make of her. &#0160;The few exceptions prove the rule: people do not change.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">There are &#39;fixer-upper&#39; houses but no &#39;fixer-upper&#39; wives. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">He who seeks a &quot;fundamental transformation&quot; does not love that which he seeks fundamentally to transform. Wherein lies a proof that Obama and his ilk are not patriots. <\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are well-advised to view your life as a self-improvement project, but beware of viewing the lives of others likewise. I mean: as your&#0160;improvement project.&#0160;If you are drawn to a member of the opposite sex, be sure you are drawn to her for what she is, not for what you fancy you can make of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/life-as-a-self-improvement-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life as a Self-Improvement Project&#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":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770","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=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}