{"id":189,"date":"2010-08-22T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-08-20T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:24:29","slug":"compliments-leave-me-unaffected-i-even-find-them-tiresome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"COMPLIMENTS LEAVE ME UNAFFECTED, I EVEN FIND THEM TIRESOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene&#8217;s retreat reflection leads him to examine his reactions to others. This is one of those texts of Eugene one hesitates to publish in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, yet it forms part of the true picture of this 19<sup>th<\/sup> century man! His \u201cpolitically incorrect\u201d opinions aside, the text does show that he was uncomfortable with exaggerated compliments.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Compliments coming from women or people leave me unaffected, I even find them tiresome. The reason is that they give them to all and sundry and without discernment.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong> I pay little heed either to those of libertines, etc., as they are superficial, insincere, etc. This could well be a consequence of my pride. I must strive to be as indifferent to those coming from basically sound people as to those from silly women, etc. I would have made great strides if I got to that point.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em> Retreat Journal, December 1814, O.W. XV n.130<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene&#8217;s retreat reflection leads him to examine his reactions to others. This is one of those texts of Eugene one hesitates to publish in the 21st century, yet it forms part of the true picture of this 19th century man! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retreat-notes","tag-eugenes-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}