{"id":9153,"date":"2012-12-11T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-3\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:20:17","slug":"how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did We Get to be So Proud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Recalling our miserably indigent origin in&#0160;the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In a line often (mis)attributed to St. Augustine, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Bernard_of_Clairvaux\" target=\"_self\">apparently<\/a> from Bernard of Clairvaux, <em>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/em>: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So inauspicious a beginning for so proud a strut upon life&#39;s stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recalling our miserably indigent origin in&#0160;the wombs of our mothers and the subsequent helplessness of infancy, how did we get to be so arrogant and self-important? In a line often (mis)attributed to St. Augustine, but apparently from Bernard of Clairvaux, Inter faeces et urinam nascimur: &quot;We are born between feces and urine.&quot;&#0160; So inauspicious a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/11\/how-did-we-get-to-be-so-proud-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Did We Get to be So Proud?&#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":[335,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","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=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}