{"id":3798,"date":"2020-01-06T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T04:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2020-01-06T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T04:53:48","slug":"a-philosophic-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/01\/06\/a-philosophic-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"A Philosophic Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>He returned the edition of Kant to the library, unread again. He came out bearing Sartre\u2019s \u201cBeing and Nothingness.\u201d Surely he could make a last effort to master existentialism.<\/p>\n<p>He decided to sit down on the bench in the high street to watch the passersby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow foolish they are,\u201d he mused, \u201cgoing on so unreflectively with their trivial business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a philosophic mind amongst them,\u201d he scoffed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey probably think I\u2019m just an elderly man sitting here with nothing to do,\u201d he surmised.<\/p>\n<p>How wrong he was, for, unnoticed by the passing multitudes, no one thought about him at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ian Fletcher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He returned the edition of Kant to the library, unread again. He came out bearing Sartre\u2019s \u201cBeing and Nothingness.\u201d Surely he could make a last effort to master existentialism. He decided to sit down on the bench in the high street to watch the passersby. \u201cHow foolish they are,\u201d he mused, \u201cgoing on so unreflectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8533,2696,3154,8530,8534,41,4773,8531,193,2922,7323,1773,8532,1971],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-being-and-nothingness","tag-bench","tag-business","tag-edition","tag-existentialism","tag-guest-contributor","tag-ian-fletcher","tag-kant","tag-library","tag-mind","tag-passersby","tag-philosophy","tag-sartre","tag-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}