{"id":1184868,"date":"2023-08-18T05:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T05:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=291905"},"modified":"2023-08-18T05:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T05:50:37","slug":"the-aspirational-self-or-canceling-banality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/18\/the-aspirational-self-or-canceling-banality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aspirational Self, or, Canceling Banality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese [the social equalizing effects of heaven] are the consolations which the wretched have peculiar to themselves in which they are above the rest of mankind; in other respects they are below them.\u201d &#8211; Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield I am not a mechanism&#8230;.and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/18\/the-aspirational-self-or-canceling-banality\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/18\/the-aspirational-self-or-canceling-banality\/\">The Aspirational Self, or, Canceling Banality!<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese [the social equalizing effects of heaven] are the consolations which the wretched have peculiar to themselves in which they are above the rest of mankind; in other respects they are below them.\u201d &#8211; Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184894,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184868\/revisions\/1184894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}