{"id":5375,"date":"2014-12-26T23:14:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:05","slug":"sitting-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/sitting-quietly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting quietly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> I have often said that the sole cause of man&#8217;s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room. A man wealthy enough for life&#8217;s needs would never leave home to go to sea or besiege some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy it.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140446451\/'>Blaise Pascal, <cite>Pensees<\/cite>, VIII, 136<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Update*: apparently [sitting alone is so unpleasant that people would rather give themselves electric shocks](http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/we-dislike-being-alone-with-our-thoughts-1.15508).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> I have often said that the sole cause of man&#8217;s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room. A man wealthy enough for life&#8217;s needs would never leave home to go to sea or besiege some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/sitting-quietly\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,374,380],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness-2","category-mindfulness","category-simplicity","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1oH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5476,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}