{"id":307,"date":"2006-01-29T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2010-08-24T23:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T04:47:13","slug":"more-on-the-right-use-of-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"More on the Right Use of Pity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The passion of Pity &#8230; the ache that draws men to concede what should not be conceded and to flatter when they should speak truth &#8230; that will die. It was used as a weapon by bad men against good ones: their weapon shall be broken. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[The action of Pity is] &#8230; a weapon on the other side. &#8230; But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; C.S. Lewis, in <em>The Great Divorce<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. &#8230; &#8230; The passion of Pity &#8230; the ache that draws men to concede [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[59,22,131,271,269],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-religion","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-evil","tag-misery","tag-passion","tag-pity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}