{"id":9315,"date":"2012-10-05T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/ambitious-for-what\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:30:12","slug":"ambitious-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/ambitious-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious For What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Here is an old man who is still ambitious.&#0160; For what?&#0160; For more land and loot, for more experiences that scatter and degrade?&#0160; For the repetition of the same old&#0160;pleasures to whose repetition a lifetime has already been devoted if not wasted?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Does this world offer even one thing that is a worthy object of ambition for one who sees clearly and deeply and has had time to wander its ways?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an old man who is still ambitious.&#0160; For what?&#0160; For more land and loot, for more experiences that scatter and degrade?&#0160; For the repetition of the same old&#0160;pleasures to whose repetition a lifetime has already been devoted if not wasted?&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; Does this world offer even one thing that is a worthy object of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/05\/ambitious-for-what\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ambitious For What?&#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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","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=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}