{"id":196,"date":"2017-12-22T12:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:12:59","slug":"marcus-aurelius-xii-and-pink-floyd-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Aurelius XII (and Pink Floyd aside)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote is an old jazz standard. It&#8217;s a single sentence that sums up the whole of the\u00a0Stoicism\u00a0pretty damn well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It is on our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Unrelated)<\/p>\n<p>I know some people don&#8217;t feel that The Final Cut is a real Pink Floyd album but I think it&#8217;s a genuine, brilliant album. Roger Waters was anti-war and anti-nuclear and this song does an incredible job splaying his thoughts on the matter out for all to hear. My favorite line, when describing the moments right after a nuclear\u00a0detonation is &#8220;<em>could be the human race is run<\/em>.&#8221; Just give it a listen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pink Floyd  - Two Suns In The Sunset\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TSz30Nj2n4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote is an old jazz standard. It&#8217;s a single sentence that sums up the whole of the\u00a0Stoicism\u00a0pretty damn well. It is on our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements. (Unrelated) I know some <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=196\">&hellip;&nbsp;<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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}