{"id":1966,"date":"2010-05-24T16:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T23:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2010-05-24T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T23:50:50","slug":"to-fulfill-our-created-purpose-is-to-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/24\/to-fulfill-our-created-purpose-is-to-love\/","title":{"rendered":"To fulfill our created purpose is to love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idleness, in the medieval view, means that a man renounces the claim  implicit in his human dignity&#8230;He does not want to be as God wants him  to be, and that ultimately means that he does not wish to be what he  really, fundamentally, IS&#8230; The contrary of acedia is not the spirit of  work in the sense of the work of every day, of earning one&#8217;s living; it  is man&#8217;s&#8230;affirmation of his own being, his acquiescence in the world  and in God &#8211; which is to say love.<\/p>\n<p>-Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, quoted by Kathleen  Norris, Acedia &amp; Me, p.309<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idleness, in the medieval view, means that a man renounces the claim implicit in his human dignity&#8230;He does not want to be as God wants him to be, and that ultimately means that he does not wish to be what he really, fundamentally, IS&#8230; The contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/24\/to-fulfill-our-created-purpose-is-to-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To fulfill our created purpose is to love&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}