{"id":2095,"date":"2007-07-03T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T01:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2007-07-03T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T01:03:49","slug":"pursuit-ofcontentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Pursuit of&#8230;contentment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often, we pursue certain things because it gives us a feeling of pleasure.  A feeling of satisfaction.  Contentment.<\/p>\n<p>Like when we purchase something at the right place.  In bliss.  We have achieved so much.<\/p>\n<p>Like when we go to the toilet.  After holding it in for an hour.  The relief is almost impossible to describe.<\/p>\n<p>Like when we pull off a scab.  Even though it&#8217;s probably unhealthy and unsanitary.  Why does it give so much pleasure?  Some would say they like the crunch.  Some just don&#8217;t like the feeling of rough skin.  Or the love of pain?<\/p>\n<p>Just some thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often, we pursue certain things because it gives us a feeling of pleasure. A feeling of satisfaction. Contentment. Like when we purchase something at the right place. In bliss. We have achieved so much. Like when we go to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2095\">Continue reading <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":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}