{"id":3878,"date":"2019-09-10T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2019-09-10T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T00:30:21","slug":"pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We crave for pleasure. Going by marketers pleasure comes down to great vacation, food, and partner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I take the definition of pleasure from the Greek philosopher Epicurus.  My life has gotten much better since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epicurus\">Epicurus<\/a>&nbsp;was a Greek philosopher and founder of the school of philosophy named&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epicureanism\">Epicureanism<\/a>. Center of his Philosophy revolved around pleasure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Epicurus:&nbsp;<em>\u201cPleasure is the beginning and the goal of a happy life\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epicurus observed that pleasure has a few simple ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Company of great friends for life.<\/li><li>Freedom to lead a life on our own conditions.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Conscious thoughts, being aware of self.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I have written in length about Epicureanism in <a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/we-are-all-epicurus\/\">https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/we-are-all-epicurus\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We crave for pleasure. Going by marketers pleasure comes down to great vacation, food, and partner.&nbsp; I take the definition of pleasure from the Greek philosopher Epicurus. My life has gotten much better since then. Epicurus&nbsp;was a Greek philosopher and founder of the school of philosophy named&nbsp;Epicureanism. Center of his Philosophy revolved around pleasure.&nbsp; According &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/pleasure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pleasure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}