{"id":517,"date":"2007-04-10T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=517"},"modified":"2016-10-12T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:57:13","slug":"feeling-stressed-today-take-some-advice-from-herodotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/feeling-stressed-today-take-some-advice-from-herodotus","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Stressed Today? Take Some Advice from Herodotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_4060\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4060\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4060\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Herodotus_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg\" alt=\"Herodotus\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Herodotus_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Herodotus_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herodotus, Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;People with bows string them when they need to use them and unstring them when they&#8217;ve finished with them. If they kept them strung all the time, the bows would break, and then they wouldn&#8217;t be able to use them when they needed them. It is no different with people&#8217;s temperments. Anyone who is serious all the time and never allows himself a fair measure of relaxation will imperceptibly slide into madness or have a stroke.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Amasis, king of Egypt, in Herodotus&#8217; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Histories<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People with bows string them when they need to use them and unstring them when they&#8217;ve finished with them. If they kept them strung all the time, the bows would break, and then they wouldn&#8217;t be able to use them when they needed them. It is no different with people&#8217;s temperments. Anyone who is serious all the time and never allows himself a fair measure of relaxation will imperceptibly slide into madness or have a stroke.&#8221; &#8211;Amasis, king of Egypt, in Herodotus&#8217; The Histories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,31,160,243],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-classics","tag-literature","tag-quotes","tag-stress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Herodotus_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-8l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}