{"id":1429,"date":"2024-09-01T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2024-09-01T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:56:15","slug":"socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/09\/01\/socrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"551\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem249.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem249.jpg 551w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem249-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What kills us is certainty,<br>unwavering conviction that we are doing the right thing.<br>The ends have to be unquestioned to justify the means,<br>questions leave room for empathy and doubt.<br><br>Socrates &#8211; the man who said that the only certainty is the lack thereof &#8211;<br>died because of his stubborn conviction that he knew the right thing to do.<br>Because eventually even the bravest of us give in<br>to the comfort of certain death<br>after a lifetime in the quicksand of uncertain truths.<br><br>The only solution is love<br>because it makes truth less important than life.<br><br>If Socrates had children,<br>he would have lived longer<br>and died without leaving a legend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kills us is certainty,unwavering conviction that we are doing the right thing.The ends have to be unquestioned to justify the means,questions leave room for empathy and doubt. Socrates &#8211; the man who said that the only certainty is the lack thereof &#8211;died because of his stubborn conviction that he knew the right thing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[350,55,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}