{"id":8620,"date":"2013-07-21T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/21\/better-unwed-than-ill-wed\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:03:42","slug":"better-unwed-than-ill-wed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/21\/better-unwed-than-ill-wed\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Unwed Than Ill-Wed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title is mine to the following observation of Paul Brunton (Notebooks<\/em>, vol. 5, part I, p. 106, #240):<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is true that men who are lonely or young or romantic are likely to marry a young woman with whom propinquity has brought them in touch.  In such cases he puts an illusion around the woman to the pressure of desire.  When the illusion goes and the facts show themselves he is left alone with the hard lesson of discrimination.  The situation can repeat itself with the victim being the woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A bit of important wisdom that unfortunately comes too late for too many.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The title is mine to the following observation of Paul Brunton (Notebooks, vol. 5, part I, p. 106, #240): It is true that men who are lonely or young or romantic are likely to marry a young woman with whom propinquity has brought them in touch.  In such cases he puts an illusion around the … Continue reading “Better Unwed Than Ill-Wed”<\/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":[208,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brunton","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","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=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}