{"id":9533,"date":"2012-07-22T05:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T05:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/22\/there-is-beauty-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2012-07-22T05:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T05:41:22","slug":"there-is-beauty-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/22\/there-is-beauty-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"There is Beauty in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I look out my study window, over the Superstition ridgeline, and marvel at the beauty of the roseate stratonimbus of sunrise.&#0160; There is beauty in the world and we do well to appreciate it.&#0160; There is also beauty and nobility in human nature.&#0160; It peeps out now and again.&#0160; A young man <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/07\/21\/12875584-shooting-survivor-boyfriend-took-a-bullet-for-me?lite\" target=\"_self\">took a bullet<\/a> during the Aurora massacre to shield his girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It can be a moral challenge to avoid misanthropy.&#0160; But avoid it we must.&#0160; The timber of humanity, though crooked, is nonetheless mostly sturdy and termite-free.&#0160; Or is the rosiness of this Arizona sunrise biasing me toward too optimistic a view?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The hardest&#0160;task in the world is to achieve a just view of things and people and their good and evil.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look out my study window, over the Superstition ridgeline, and marvel at the beauty of the roseate stratonimbus of sunrise.&#0160; There is beauty in the world and we do well to appreciate it.&#0160; There is also beauty and nobility in human nature.&#0160; It peeps out now and again.&#0160; A young man took a bullet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/22\/there-is-beauty-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There is Beauty in the World&#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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","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=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}