{"id":213,"date":"2017-12-27T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2017-12-27T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T18:16:32","slug":"a-forward-on-seneca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"A Forward on Seneca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seneca is an interesting character. His proponents say he provides a rich, digestible version of realist Stoicism and greatly influenced early Christian thought. His detractors would point to his apparent misalignment between simple philosophy and extravagant lifestyle. I&#8217;ll take the middle path: He was a flawed, imperfect man who recognized\u00a0his misgivings and tried to reconcile what he did with what he thought. Though\u00a0<em>Letters from a Stoic<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>he manages to provide a realistic application of Stoic teachings.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next weeks, I&#8217;ll document my favorite sayings of his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seneca is an interesting character. His proponents say he provides a rich, digestible version of realist Stoicism and greatly influenced early Christian thought. His detractors would point to his apparent misalignment between simple philosophy and extravagant lifestyle. I&#8217;ll take the middle path: He was a flawed, imperfect man who recognized\u00a0his misgivings and tried to reconcile <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=213\">&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-213","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\/213","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=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}