{"id":11694,"date":"2011-10-05T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11694"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:32:28","slug":"converting-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/10\/converting-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom at Disputations posts\u00a0How to overcome envy over the depth and beauty of other people’s blogposts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are several effective methods. Here is a non-exhaustive list:<\/p>\n

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  1. Convert envy to zeal. “Boy howdy, I’ll write a blog post of my own, with this as my model and exemplar!”<\/li>\n
  2. Convert envy to pride. “I’ve got to admit, I can really spot a deep and beautiful blogpost when I see one.”<\/li>\n
  3. Convert envy to vainglory. “This, clearly, is the pearl produced by my comment on that post back on June 26.”<\/li>\n
  4. Convert envy to sloth. “You know, I bet if… say, when do the Brewers play?”<\/li>\n
  5. Avoid envy altogether. “I don’t read that blog anymore.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I would add:<\/div>\n
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    • Convert envy to contention. “Wow those beautiful and thoughtful blogposts take too long to read, I’ll just unsubscribe from that *#&$# blog.”<\/li>\n
    • Convert envy to greed. \u00a0“I’ll just link to that excellent blog and comment on it in the hope of getting a link back to increase my Google Adsense revenue.”<\/li>\n
    • Downgrade envy to jealousy. “I really admire the writing and wish them well, but why are they picked up to write for the National Catholic Register and Patheos?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Tom at Disputations posts\u00a0How to overcome envy over the depth and beauty of other people’s blogposts There are several effective methods. Here is a non-exhaustive list: Convert envy to zeal.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}