{"id":233,"date":"2013-03-08T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stathiskanterakis.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-03-08T15:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:16:00","slug":"citizens-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/citizens-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"I'm not an Athenian, not a Greek, but I'm a citizen of the world\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-zwMFZ8-K62Y\/UD6P749DUrI\/AAAAAAAABjk\/o74XuwV8KGg\/s1600\/metro+cidade+universit%C3%A1ria+lisboa+alameda+da+universidade+lisbon+subway+underground+portugal+socrates.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This quote from an ambiguous ancient source (credited to Socrates but more likely uttered by Diogenis) has quite a wide range of interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>To me it means that you are neither bound by nor entitled to your &#8220;national heritage&#8221;. Some attributes you acquire without choice or much thought. If you subtract those attributes from yourself (not permanently; you may wish to claim them back), you are free to discover <em>your own<\/em> self, make <em>your<\/em> choices and contributions to humanity. There is no better way to achieve this than by travelling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. This quote from an ambiguous ancient source (credited to Socrates but more likely uttered by Diogenis) has quite a wide range of interpretations. To me it means that you are neither bound by nor entitled to your &#8220;national heritage&#8221;. Some attributes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/08\/citizens-of-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Citizens of the world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,23],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-philosophy","category-travel","tag-lisboa","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}