{"id":8920,"date":"2011-03-30T21:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T13:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2011-03-30T22:15:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:15:22","slug":"complicating-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/03\/complicating-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Complicating Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8919\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/125.jpg?resize=154%2C160\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/125.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/125.jpg?resize=92%2C96&amp;ssl=1 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tit for a Tat (288)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit: <\/span>Why am I a sentient being and not a non-sentient thing?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Why ask this?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Because I&#8217;m sentient!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Okay, but why does it bother you?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit: <\/span>Was thinking life wouild be much simpler if I wasn&#8217;t a sentient being.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat: <\/span>Well, if you&#8217;re not a sentient being, you wouldn&#8217;t be able to  appreciate life being simpler! And your thinking just complicated your  life!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Since we are sentient beings, it&#8217;s up to us to find the most meaningful  meaning of life and to live it.<br \/>\nOur body comprises of non-sentient  elements too.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Next aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/03\/walk-in-wardrobe\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/03\/walk-in-wardrobe<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Previous aT4aT<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/03\/door-of-mindfulness\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/03\/door-of-mindfulness<br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">About aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/02\/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tit for a Tat (288) Tit: Why am I a sentient being and not a non-sentient thing? Tat: Why&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tittat","tag-meaning-of-life","wpcat-540-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}