{"id":9705,"date":"2012-05-14T16:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/14\/moral-failure\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:42:16","slug":"moral-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/14\/moral-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Repeated moral failure has at least this salutary effect: it teaches us to be humble.&#0160; Moral success can have the opposite effect of conducing toward spiritual pride &#8212; which undermines the very success of which it is the upshot.&#0160; So, while regretting one&#39;s failures, one can derive a little consolation from&#0160;the realization that they are contributing to one&#39;s humility.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeated moral failure has at least this salutary effect: it teaches us to be humble.&#0160; Moral success can have the opposite effect of conducing toward spiritual pride &#8212; which undermines the very success of which it is the upshot.&#0160; So, while regretting one&#39;s failures, one can derive a little consolation from&#0160;the realization that they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/14\/moral-failure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moral Failure&#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":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","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=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}