{"id":154,"date":"2006-08-22T09:35:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/08\/22\/leisure-the-basis-of-culture\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:35:54","slug":"leisure-the-basis-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/08\/22\/leisure-the-basis-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Leisure, the Basis of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Benedict XVI, VATICAN CITY, AUG. 20, 2006 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/\">Zenit.org<\/a>)&#8230; It is necessary to pay attention to the dangers of excessive activity, regardless of one&#8217;s condition and occupation, observes the saint (Bernard of Clairvaux), because &#8212; as he said to the Pope of that time, and to all Popes and to all of us &#8212; numerous occupations often lead to &#8220;hardness of heart, &#8230; they are no more than suffering for the spirit, loss of intelligence and dispersion of grace&#8221;. &#8230; The message that, in this connection, Bernard addresses to the Pontiff, who had been his disciple at Clairvaux, is provocative: &#8220;See where these accursed occupations can lead you, if you continue to lose yourself in them &#8212; without leaving anything of yourself for yourself&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Benedict XVI, VATICAN CITY, AUG. 20, 2006 (Zenit.org)&#8230; It is necessary to pay attention to the dangers of excessive activity, regardless of one&#8217;s condition and occupation, observes the saint (Bernard of Clairvaux), because &#8212; as he said to the Pope of that time, and to all Popes and to all of us &#8212; numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}