{"id":1,"date":"2023-01-04T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poc-1.azurewebsites.net\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T09:25:44","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the blog of Chris Meredith, psychotherapist from Stamford, England. In this blog I shall be posting reflections on a wide range of topics related to mental health, philosophical psychotherapy and general psychology. I hope also to post regular reviews of books\u2014and other media\u2014that I find useful, informative and\/or entertaining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is my hope that the reader will recognise that I aim to philosophise with intellectual humility, honesty and generosity. Famously, Socrates is reported to have said &#8216;all that I know is that I know nothing&#8217;. Over 2000 years later, I suspect that I know even less than him. However, it is my aspiration that the little that I <em>do<\/em> know conforms to the ideals of goodness, truth, utility and, perhaps, some measure of eloquence and simplicity. Lao Tzu said &#8216;beautiful words are not truthful, truthful words are not beautiful.&#8217; He was, I believe, being critical of the flowery, over-elaborate, formal language of the Court Officals of his time. Luckily for me, I&#8217;m not writing for emperors, so I can dispense with needless excess. As is often said\u2014 KISS\u2014keep it simple, stupid!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoy my blog, and find food for thought here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the blog of Chris Meredith, psychotherapist from Stamford, England. In this blog I shall be posting reflections on a wide range of topics related to mental health, philosophical psychotherapy and general psychology. I hope also to post regular reviews of books\u2014and other media\u2014that I find useful, informative and\/or entertaining. It is my hope &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hello.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrismeredithpsychotherapy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}