{"id":30,"date":"2014-01-28T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:20:10","slug":"what-do-i-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"What Do I Desire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/watts-wisdomofinsecuritycover.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/watts-wisdomofinsecuritycover.jpeg\" alt=\"watts-wisdomofinsecuritycover\" width=\"173\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-82\" \/><\/a>Alan Watts was the Joyous Cosmologist, as the title of a book he wrote claimed. He was a major philosophical figure in the 50s and 60s, the writer of many books, and a popularizer of Asian religions and philosophies. <\/p>\n<p>Here he gives a Ted Talk that long predates Ted, and gets to one of the key questions about life. He does it artfully, uses the word retch in a memorable phrase, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/something-every-teacher-should-watch-and-student-and-person?c=reccon1\">you can listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Watts was the Joyous Cosmologist, as the title of a book he wrote claimed. He was a major philosophical figure in the 50s and 60s, the writer of many books, and a popularizer of Asian religions and philosophies. Here he gives a Ted Talk that long predates Ted, and gets to one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Do I Desire?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-ideas","category-link","category-video","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}