{"id":39915,"date":"2022-07-19T07:58:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39915"},"modified":"2022-07-19T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:58:14","slug":"ignorance-is-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39915","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Is Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-39916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ignorance_Is_Bliss-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"Ignorance Is Bliss\" width=\"568\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ignorance_Is_Bliss-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ignorance_Is_Bliss-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ignorance_Is_Bliss.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think not! This is a false datum promulgated I suspect by those without the courage to look and see the evil that is present. As I have as my email footer:<\/p>\n<p>One of my aims in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.<\/p>\n<p>Our most formidable enemies are:<br \/>\nPersonal and collective ignorance,<br \/>\npersonal and organisational out-ethics,<br \/>\nlack of personal integrity and<br \/>\nlack of self-discipline.<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know and what we know we should do but do not discipline<br \/>\nourselves to do are two things that will kill us. Gradually or suddenly.<\/p>\n<p>Self-discipline is a skill and just like any skill, it improves with practice.<br \/>\nOn what are you going to practice yours today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think not! This is a false datum promulgated I suspect by those without the courage to look and see the evil that is present. As I have as my email footer: One of my aims in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am. Our most formidable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=39915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ignorance Is Bliss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39917,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39915\/revisions\/39917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}