{"id":9138,"date":"2021-06-07T10:37:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2021-06-07T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:37:55","slug":"lost-in-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9138","title":{"rendered":"LOST IN THOUGHT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B0824B74F9\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our American culture is full of people with a toxic combination of ignorance and arrogance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lost in Thought<\/em> is an antidote to both of these.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitz\u2019s subtitle is <em>The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life<\/em>. She has done a terrific job of showing us where the gems are to be found.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am glad Hitz felt free to use \u201cintellectual\u201d and to show that all of us, irrespective of brain power or giftedness, are called to pursue a life of learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This book is part memoir as the author shares a bit about her own journey. I found this not only interesting, but it lent credibility to the things she promotes in her book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitz does a good job demonstrating that deep learning is a way to show love to others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education and high culture do not automatically lead to virtue. You can be both learned and lacking in virtue. The Germany of WWII is the example usually given, but sadly there are many more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hitz\u2019s book contains many fascinating insights like how the solitary confinement of prison resulted in some people doing brilliant work. She did not mention John Bunyan, but I will try to forgive the author for that omission!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly recommended!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our American culture is full of people with a toxic combination of ignorance and arrogance. Lost in Thought is an antidote to both of these. Hitz\u2019s subtitle is The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. She has done a terrific job of showing us where the gems are to be found. I am glad Hitz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,37,154,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-learningeducation","category-thinking","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}