{"id":6215,"date":"2011-05-12T14:52:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2012-08-17T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T08:47:13","slug":"re-conversing-with-epicurus-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2011\/05\/12\/re-conversing-with-epicurus-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: conversing with Epicurus (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am having a conversation with a dead man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>not being an educated person<br \/>\nI never tried this before\u00a0as no one ever told me I could<\/p>\n<p>I have talked to those still alive<br \/>\nwhose values live in words close to our time<br \/>\nI have translated those words<br \/>\nand felt the deeper menings and intentions\u00a0in my heart or my mind<br \/>\nthe intoxication of their personal brilliance\u00a0or their excitement<\/p>\n<p>But I have never met someone\u00a0so vehemently alone in himself<br \/>\nas Epicurus<\/p>\n<p>And I found as well that he<br \/>\nso much dust of our Earth was living and breathing<br \/>\nthrough out time because he<br \/>\nhad only one way of dealing with his loneliness<br \/>\naiming for a cure never finding it:<\/p>\n<p>He told the whole world<br \/>\nwho he was<br \/>\nthe best way he could<br \/>\nand with all his good intentions for all<br \/>\nat the core of every sentence<\/p>\n<p>What a lonely man<br \/>\nand how brave to having lived and<br \/>\nto be alive<br \/>\nso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility (ataraxia) and freedom from fear, as well as absence of bodily pain (aponia) through knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of one&#8217;s desires. The combination of these two states is supposed to constitute happiness in its highest form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,290,1295,1461],"tags":[1462],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digt","category-english-posts","category-nyt","category-poem","tag-epicur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6217,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}