{"id":9927,"date":"2012-02-19T13:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T13:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/idle-talk-2\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T13:33:24","slug":"idle-talk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/idle-talk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Time was when I felt superior to those who lose themselves for hours&#0160;in idle talk,&#0160; the endless yap, yap, yap, about noth, noth, nothing.&#0160; But superior to that superiority is benign indifference to the idlers, an indifference so indifferent&#0160;that it permits a bit of engagement with them, not condescendingly, but in acknowledgement of our common humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time was when I felt superior to those who lose themselves for hours&#0160;in idle talk,&#0160; the endless yap, yap, yap, about noth, noth, nothing.&#0160; But superior to that superiority is benign indifference to the idlers, an indifference so indifferent&#0160;that it permits a bit of engagement with them, not condescendingly, but in acknowledgement of our common &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/idle-talk-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Idle Talk&#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-9927","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\/9927","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=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}