{"id":909,"date":"2024-03-01T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/the-ambiguity-of-vows\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T09:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:59:21","slug":"the-ambiguity-of-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/the-ambiguity-of-vows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ambiguity of Vows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Vows make for stability of life and put a brake on the mercurial and fickle in us. They must be taken seriously or not taken at all. But rigid commitments immaturely or prematurely entered into&#0160; are sometimes better broken than kept. Sometimes, not often. Rigidity and flexibility, both physical and psychological, are values, competing values. Each deserves its due. The topic of competing values is rich and deep and insufficiently explored. More grist for the mill.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vows make for stability of life and put a brake on the mercurial and fickle in us. They must be taken seriously or not taken at all. But rigid commitments immaturely or prematurely entered into&#0160; are sometimes better broken than kept. Sometimes, not often. Rigidity and flexibility, both physical and psychological, are values, competing values. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/01\/the-ambiguity-of-vows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ambiguity of Vows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-axiology","category-commitment-doxastic-and-existential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}