{"id":6139,"date":"2016-10-14T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/14\/desideratum-3\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T11:48:36","slug":"desideratum-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/14\/desideratum-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Desideratum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">It may not be possible except for some of us some of the time: to be in the world, but not of it. &#0160;Engaged, yet detached. &#0160;To battle our enemies without becoming embittered or like them. &#0160;To retain the equanimity of the monk in the midst of the world. &#0160;To float like a lotus blossom without getting wet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Or to paraphrase the <em>Bhagavad &#0160;Gita<\/em>: to enter and &#0160;partake of the fray but with detachment from the fruits of action.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be possible except for some of us some of the time: to be in the world, but not of it. &#0160;Engaged, yet detached. &#0160;To battle our enemies without becoming embittered or like them. &#0160;To retain the equanimity of the monk in the midst of the world. &#0160;To float like a lotus blossom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/14\/desideratum-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Desideratum&#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-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","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=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}