{"id":193,"date":"2015-10-23T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=193"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T20:58:40","slug":"down-with-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Down with expectations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read in The Guardian today that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/oct\/21\/choice-stressing-us-out-dating-partners-monopolies\">\u201cThe secret to happiness is low expectations.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Later read something on Twitter which I liked better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss \u2013\u00a0an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. \u2013\u00a0is sure to be noticed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard, <em>The Sickness Unto Death, <\/em>32-33.<\/p>\n<p>Just pulled <em>Essays of Schopenhauer V<\/em> off the shelf. My grandfather who did war relief in Minsk after The Great War cited this in his book.<\/p>\n<p>Today I say \u201cDown with expectations! Up with romantic era Danish and German philosophers!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read in The Guardian today that\u00a0\u201cThe secret to happiness is low expectations.\u201d\u00a0Later read something on Twitter which I liked better: The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=193\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}