{"id":27530,"date":"2021-01-30T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/30\/covid-is-an-existential-crisis-that-comes-from-an-awareness-of-your-own-freedoms"},"modified":"2021-01-30T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T21:00:49","slug":"coronavirus-is-an-existential-crisis-that-comes-from-an-awareness-of-your-own-freedoms-dr-sarb-johal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27530","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus is an existential crisis that comes from an awareness of your own freedoms | Dr Sarb Johal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Book extract: <\/strong>A lot of things will change as a result of this pandemic and it\u2019s clear the recovery won\u2019t be marked by a discrete event<\/p>\n<p>In 1844, Danish philosopher S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard wrote: \u201cWhoever has learnt to be anxious in the right way, has learnt the ultimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m no Kierkegaard, but I think he may have been on to something. The anxiety we may be experiencing in these coronavirus times might be something that feels different, deeper, and beyond perhaps your usual fear or anxiety about day-to-day troubles. This feels more existential.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/30\/covid-is-an-existential-crisis-that-comes-from-an-awareness-of-your-own-freedoms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book extract: A lot of things will change as a result of this pandemic and it\u2019s clear the recovery won\u2019t be marked by a discrete eventIn 1844, Danish philosopher S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard wrote: \u201cWhoever has learnt to be anxious in the right way, has learnt th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,346,744,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-mental-health","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27532,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27530\/revisions\/27532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}