{"id":6753,"date":"2015-12-30T11:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T11:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/on-making-it\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T11:50:59","slug":"on-making-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/on-making-it\/","title":{"rendered":"On &#8216;Making It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One reason to try to &#39;make it&#39; is to come to appreciate, by succeeding, that worldly success cannot&#0160; be a final goal of legitimate human striving. &#39;Making it&#39; frees one psychologically and allows one to turn one&#39;s attention to worthier matters.&#0160; He who fails is dogged by a sense of failure whereas he who succeeds is in a position to appreciate the ultimate insignificance of both success and failure, not that most of the successful ever do.&#0160; Their success traps them.&#0160; Hence the sad spectacle of the old coot, a good flight of stairs away from a major coronary event, scheming and angling for more loot and land when in the end a man needs only &#8212; six feet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason to try to &#39;make it&#39; is to come to appreciate, by succeeding, that worldly success cannot&#0160; be a final goal of legitimate human striving. &#39;Making it&#39; frees one psychologically and allows one to turn one&#39;s attention to worthier matters.&#0160; He who fails is dogged by a sense of failure whereas he who succeeds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/on-making-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On &#8216;Making It&#8217;&#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":[544,69,39,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-meaning-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","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=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}