{"id":9042,"date":"2013-01-23T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/delicious-obscurity\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T15:08:14","slug":"delicious-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/delicious-obscurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Obscurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">We who are obscure ought to be grateful for it.&#0160; It is wonderful to be able to walk down the street and<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">be taken, and left, for an average schlep.&#0160; A little recognition from a few high-quality individuals is all one needs.&#0160; Fame can be a curse.&#0160;&#0160; The unhinged Mark David Chapman, animated by Holden Caulfield&#39;s animus against phoniness, decided that John Lennon was a phony, and so had to be shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">The value of fame may also be inferred from the moral and intellectual quality of those who confer it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">The mad pursuit of empty celebrity by so many in our society shows their and its spiritual vacuity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">UPDATE:&#0160; By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/01\/the-fraction-of-famous-people-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_self\">this metric<\/a>, however, I count as famous.&#0160; Well, we live in an age of low standards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We who are obscure ought to be grateful for it.&#0160; It is wonderful to be able to walk down the street and be taken, and left, for an average schlep.&#0160; A little recognition from a few high-quality individuals is all one needs.&#0160; Fame can be a curse.&#0160;&#0160; The unhinged Mark David Chapman, animated by Holden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/delicious-obscurity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delicious Obscurity&#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":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}