{"id":9104,"date":"2012-12-28T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/28\/silence\/"},"modified":"2012-12-28T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:44:00","slug":"silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/28\/silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If it is a mere absence of sound, why is it so delicious?&#0160; Turn off some noisemaker and the silence is there, palpably.&#0160; It is supereminently there if you succeed in turning off that most noisy and hard-to-turn-off noisemaker, your own mind.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Max Picard proved unhelpful.&#0160; His effusions are vaguely suggestive but&#0160;neither fish nor&#0160;fowl, neither philosophy nor poetry. More help is to be had from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tisjsgsgtZU\" target=\"_self\">Beatles<\/a>: &quot;Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.&#0160; It is not dying, it is not dying . . . .&quot; <\/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\/09\/an-aphorism-of-mine-translated-into-slovak.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\/115558208_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\/09\/an-aphorism-of-mine-translated-into-slovak.html\" style=\"padding: 5px 2px 0px; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; display: block;\" target=\"_blank\">An Aphorism of Mine Translated into Slovak<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it is a mere absence of sound, why is it so delicious?&#0160; Turn off some noisemaker and the silence is there, palpably.&#0160; It is supereminently there if you succeed in turning off that most noisy and hard-to-turn-off noisemaker, your own mind.&#0160; Max Picard proved unhelpful.&#0160; His effusions are vaguely suggestive but&#0160;neither fish nor&#0160;fowl, neither &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/28\/silence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silence&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","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=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}