{"id":5934,"date":"2016-12-21T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/socializing-as-self-denial\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:38:43","slug":"socializing-as-self-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/socializing-as-self-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Socializing as Self-Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">You don&#39;t really want to go to that Christmas party where you will eat what you don&#39;t need to eat, drink what you don&#39;t need to drink, and dissipate your inwardness in pointless chit-chat.&#0160; But you were invited and your non-attendance&#0160;may&#0160;be taken amiss.&#0160; So you remind yourself that self-denial is good and that it is useful from time to time to practice the art of donning and wearing the mask of a &#39;regular guy.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">For the step into the social is by dissimulation. Necessary to the art of life is knowing how to negotiate the social world and pass yourself off&#0160;under various guises and disguises.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/12\/posts-of-christmas-past.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/318521571_80_80.jpg\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2014\/12\/posts-of-christmas-past.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\" target=\"_blank\">Posts of Christmas Past<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#39;t really want to go to that Christmas party where you will eat what you don&#39;t need to eat, drink what you don&#39;t need to drink, and dissipate your inwardness in pointless chit-chat.&#0160; But you were invited and your non-attendance&#0160;may&#0160;be taken amiss.&#0160; So you remind yourself that self-denial is good and that it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/socializing-as-self-denial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Socializing as Self-Denial&#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":[69,39,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}