{"id":1026,"date":"2018-12-31T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:00:57","slug":"moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/moderation\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I wrote a blog about coffee and I brought up the question: what is moderation? I think moderation is in the eye of the beholder. When it comes to coffee, for me one cup in several months is moderate. But I understand that some people try to limit themselves to one cup a day and they look at that as moderate. To some people one glass of wine a day is moderate; to an ex-alcoholic one glass a day is way too much.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think when it comes to talking about moderation we should not use it as a blanket idea that covers everything equally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think when it comes to alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, or things that are not good for us like coffee, sugary drinks, and desserts, we need to alter what moderation means. And I think that if we’ve had a history with some of those things (like addiction) we again have to alter what the word moderation means.<\/span><\/p>\n

So for different people, moderation should mean different things.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When someone says to me they eat chicken twice a week and that’s “in moderation,” to me that is excessive because I won’t eat chicken – so even once a month is too much for me. I must confess that when people look me in the eye and they say, “Everything I do is in moderation,” it is all I can do to keep from bursting out laughing in their face. Because they really have no idea what they’re saying.<\/span><\/p>\n

One drop of arsenic was Socrates death sentence. If that was one drop of water it wouldn’t be enough, but one drop of arsenic was too much. So again I pose a question for you to think about: what does moderation mean? And should the idea of moderation be altered depending on what we’re talking about?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell me what you think on my Facebook or my Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I wrote a blog about coffee and I brought up the question: what is moderation? I think moderation is in the eye of the beholder. When it comes to coffee, for me one cup in several months is moderate. But I understand that some people try to limit themselves to one cup […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,24,10,12,160,22,86,13,14,15,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140297,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/140297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}