{"id":63,"date":"2011-08-09T16:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2012-02-09T00:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T05:28:41","slug":"philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/interests-2\/philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/thinker.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2011\/08\/thinker.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Who Am I?<\/h1>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003300\">That was the question in a psychology class I was taking that lead me to philosophy.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003300\">Soon afterwards I discovered that philosophy was the field of study that was asking and trying to answer the type of questions I was asking myself and the world.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003300\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300\"> After a 2 year leave of absence I returned to college to study philosophy and educate myself as to who I am and who human kind is, where we have come from and where we may be heading. \u00a0I studied Greek and Roman civiliazation, since they are the roots of our western culture today. Prior to my formal studies, I learned much of the eastern philosophies, old and new.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003300\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300\"> I had many great dialogues in the past with fellow students and professors at the University of Buffalo.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300\"> I think it is unfortunate that too many of us don&#8217;t take the time to just think and talk anymore.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #003300\">What&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">my<\/span> philosophy of life?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003300\"> Live life to the fullest and live each day like it&#8217;s your last, for one day it will be, and you never know when that will be.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Am I? That was the question in a psychology class I was taking that lead me to philosophy. Soon afterwards I discovered that philosophy was the field of study that was asking and trying to answer the type of questions I was asking myself and the world. After a 2 year leave of absence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/118"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/donaldpickert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}