{"id":23016,"date":"2019-04-20T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23016"},"modified":"2019-04-20T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:59:00","slug":"7-on-anger-de-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/04\/7-on-anger-de-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"#7: On Anger (De Ira)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23017\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/well.jpg?resize=700%2C587&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/well.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/well.jpg?resize=96%2C81&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/well.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Quotes that resonate, from &#8216;How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management&#8217; by Seneca, selected, translated and introduced by James Romm.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[12]<\/strong><br \/>\nTo get angry on behalf of one&#8217;s kin is the mark of a weak mind, not a loyal one. It is this that is noble and worthy: for a defender to act on behalf of parents, children, and friends with his duty leading him on &#8211; willingly, judicious;y and with foresight, not driven and raging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[13]<\/strong><br \/>\nThere is no emotion more eager for vengeance than anger, and for that very reason, none less suited to the taking of vengeance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[14]<\/strong><br \/>\n[W]e must not even suppose that anger contributes in any way to greatness. That&#8217;s not greatness but mere swelling, just as a disease, in bodies distended by an excess of unhealthy fluid, is not &#8216;growth&#8217; but a noxious overflow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes that resonate, from &#8216;How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management&#8217; by Seneca, selected, translated and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}