{"id":5061,"date":"2020-10-31T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T03:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2020-10-31T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T03:25:51","slug":"moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/31\/moderation\/","title":{"rendered":"moderation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are living in a world where moderation is a thing of the past. A runner wants to compete in ironman, an e-commerce site offers one plus two discounts, and Friday brewery trail comes with happy hours. Netflix has binge-watching over ice cream, alcohol, caffeinated drink, and lots of carbs. Overdoing has become a matter of pride and a badge of honor? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every single element of modern society guides you towards more is good. None talks about moderation. Is it because the bus of consumerism will come to a halt? Instead of providing service and charging, everyone has become an attention merchant? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are earning more, spending more, eating more, and getting more sick. We have everything in abundance, including disease, stress, pain.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened to the teachings of minimalism and moderation taught by our forefathers? We dumped, burnt them, or erased it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation. <br> &#8212; Heraclitus <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are living in a world where moderation is a thing of the past. A runner wants to compete in ironman, an e-commerce site offers one plus two discounts, and Friday brewery trail comes with happy hours. Netflix has binge-watching over ice cream, alcohol, caffeinated drink, and lots of carbs. Overdoing has become a matter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/31\/moderation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;moderation&#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":[1007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061"}],"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=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}