{"id":3091,"date":"2009-03-02T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2009-03-02T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T13:52:36","slug":"revisiting-the-cause-of-unhappiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200903\/revisiting-the-cause-of-unhappiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Cause of Unhappiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is over 2 years since I wrote my seminal post\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200611\/the-cause-of-unhappiness\/\">&#8220;The Cause of Unhappiness&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 It is clear now that I had underestimated human ingenuity. Even with a force as powerful as nuclear weapons standing between humanity and periodic societal destruction, we have still managed, quite creditably, to bring ourselves to the verge of a cataclysm.\u00a0\u00a0 On that note, read point 13 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=4689#\">this list<\/a>, which echoes my point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is over 2 years since I wrote my seminal post\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The Cause of Unhappiness&#8221;.\u00a0 It is clear now that I had underestimated human ingenuity. Even with a force as powerful as nuclear weapons standing between humanity and periodic societal destruction, we have still managed, quite creditably, to bring ourselves to the verge of a cataclysm.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[223,272,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}