{"id":9751,"date":"2012-04-25T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/on-praise\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:02:28","slug":"on-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/on-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"On Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">We do not like to be praised if (a) the praiser is beneath us; (b) what is praised is something insignificant or common; (c) the praise is insincere, perhaps by having an ulterior motive; (d) the praise is mistaken in that we lack the excellence attributed to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Particularly annoying is to be praised for something insignificant while one&#39;s actual virtues go unappreciated. So be careful in your bestowal of praise: take care that you do not offend the one you hope <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">to flatter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not like to be praised if (a) the praiser is beneath us; (b) what is praised is something insignificant or common; (c) the praise is insincere, perhaps by having an ulterior motive; (d) the praise is mistaken in that we lack the excellence attributed to us. Particularly annoying is to be praised for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/on-praise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Praise&#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":[69,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}