{"id":399,"date":"2018-05-26T09:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T09:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/?p=399"},"modified":"2018-06-11T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T13:16:16","slug":"the-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/the-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Medieval Latin follus, from Vulgar Latin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/fool\" target=\"_blank\">follis<\/a> (foolish) meaning &#8220;windbag, empty-headed person.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fool_(stock_character)\" target=\"_blank\">The Fool<\/a> is an archetypal character common in art and storytelling, often with religions connotations (be it <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foolishness_for_Christ\" target=\"_blank\">Christian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ny%C3%B6npa\" target=\"_blank\">Buddhist<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malamatiyya\" target=\"_blank\">Islamic<\/a>). In the esoteric interpretations of Tarot, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Fool_(Tarot_card)\" target=\"_blank\">the fool<\/a> is a naive protagonist traversing the mysteries of life. The &#8220;Fool&#8217;s Journey&#8221; is a symbolic representation of facing the unknown and encountering the fundamental archetypes of existence.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the fool is the beginning of every journey, and is, necessarily, the beginning of learning. One cannot see the unknown without conscious recognition that one is such a naive fool, that the unknown is indeed unknown (and awaits discovery).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Medieval Latin follus, from Vulgar Latin follis (foolish) meaning &#8220;windbag, empty-headed person.&#8221; The Fool is an archetypal character common in art and storytelling, often with religions connotations (be it Christian, Buddhist, or Islamic). In the esoteric interpretations of Tarot, the fool is a naive protagonist traversing the mysteries of life. The &#8220;Fool&#8217;s Journey&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studios.avant.net\/lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}