{"id":385,"date":"2004-05-04T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T22:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/04\/the-despotic-ego\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:59","slug":"the-despotic-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/04\/the-despotic-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"The Despotic Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Weariness may also begin to set in &#8212; this is actually a healthy sign &#8212; at the enormous burden of working for the ego. Most of us, before we see this, don&#8217;t realize why we&#8217;re so tired, or even how tired we are. But we spend our whole day nourishing the ego, being told by it what to do, maintaining and protecting it, being wounded in it. It&#8217;s exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Rosenberg <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/whiskeyriver.blogspot.com\/\">whiskey river<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weariness may also begin to set in &#8212; this is actually a healthy sign &#8212; at the enormous burden of working for the ego. Most of us, before we see this, don&#8217;t realize why we&#8217;re so tired, or even how tired we are. But we spend our whole day nourishing the ego, being told by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12969,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/12969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}