{"id":8888,"date":"2013-04-02T05:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/neighbors-and-relatives\/"},"modified":"2013-04-02T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T05:59:34","slug":"neighbors-and-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/neighbors-and-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors and Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It doesn&#39;t bother me in the least that my neighbors and casual acquaintances do not engage me where I live.&#0160; I expect such relations to be superficial and conventional.&#0160; But I expect more from relatives even though this expectation is irrational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I have no trouble accepting that propinquity is no guarantee of spiritual affinity.&#0160; Why then do I suppose that consanguinity should be such a guarantee?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Blood is thicker than water, but for a <em>Luftmensch, &#0160;pneuma<\/em> is what counts.<\/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: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0px; width: 84px; text-align: left; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: top; float: left; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/05\/propinquity-and-social-distance.html\" style=\"padding: 2px; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none; display: block; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/90936464_80_80.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; width: 80px; display: block; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/05\/propinquity-and-social-distance.html\" style=\"padding: 5px 2px 0px; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; display: block;\" target=\"_blank\">Propinquity and Social Distance<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#39;t bother me in the least that my neighbors and casual acquaintances do not engage me where I live.&#0160; I expect such relations to be superficial and conventional.&#0160; But I expect more from relatives even though this expectation is irrational. I have no trouble accepting that propinquity is no guarantee of spiritual affinity.&#0160; Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/02\/neighbors-and-relatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neighbors and Relatives&#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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","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=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}