{"id":273713,"date":"2021-08-13T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=211496"},"modified":"2021-08-13T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T08:28:13","slug":"on-telling-the-truth-to-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/13\/on-telling-the-truth-to-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"On Telling the Truth to Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself.\u201d &#8211;Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi Rocky, the code name given to me by the far left in the Portland, Oregon protest movement, was born out of pure existential spiritual crisis, the kind that has plagued me my entire life. I could never understand why others did  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/13\/on-telling-the-truth-to-ourselves\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/13\/on-telling-the-truth-to-ourselves\/\">On Telling the Truth to Ourselves<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/13\/on-telling-the-truth-to-ourselves\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself.\u201d &#8211;Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi Rocky, the code name given to me by the far left in the Portland, Oregon protest movement, was born out of pure existential spiritual crisis, the kind tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273713"}],"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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273722,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273713\/revisions\/273722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}