{"id":7180,"date":"2015-05-08T04:54:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T04:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/at-the-monastery\/"},"modified":"2015-05-08T04:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T04:54:42","slug":"at-the-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/at-the-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">It is delightful to be able to traverse an outdoor or indoor space without feeling obliged to greet or even acknowledge the passersby. &#0160;This one can do at a monastery without fear of being taken as anti-social or unfriendly. &#0160;For silence is the &#39;default setting&#39; at the monastery whereas noise and idle talk are the &#39;default settings&#39; in society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">So much the worse for society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/03\/tongue-and-pen-1.html\" target=\"_self\">Tongue and Pen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is delightful to be able to traverse an outdoor or indoor space without feeling obliged to greet or even acknowledge the passersby. &#0160;This one can do at a monastery without fear of being taken as anti-social or unfriendly. &#0160;For silence is the &#39;default setting&#39; at the monastery whereas noise and idle talk are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/05\/08\/at-the-monastery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the Monastery&#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":[358,465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-solitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","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=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}