{"id":12091,"date":"2012-06-18T19:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=12091"},"modified":"2023-06-24T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T22:43:41","slug":"would-you-rather-be-in-emotional-pain-or-physical-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=12091","title":{"rendered":"question : Would you rather be in physical or emotional pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on how intense each pain is, but if they&#8217;re equal, I&#8217;d much rather be in emotional pain. It&#8217;s not even a question I have to ponder. I hate physical pain. It&#8217;s something I try to avoid as often as possible. I don&#8217;t even like drinking soda and other carbonated beverages that burn going down.<\/p>\n<p>Emotional pain is something I&#8217;ve rarely had to deal with, at least in my adult life. I used to cry as a kid, but it&#8217;s arguable if even most of those moments were the result of &#8220;pain&#8221; as opposed to anger or other emotional reasons. In any case it&#8217;s rare for me to experience emotional pain as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a subjective thing compared to physical pain and I&#8217;m just not that sensitive to it. The title question assumes I would be, so perhaps my answer comes from ignorance, but I think that even if I were as sensitive to emotional pain as I am to physical pain, I&#8217;d still rather be in emotional pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on how intense each pain is, but if they&#8217;re equal, I&#8217;d much rather be in emotional pain. It&#8217;s not even a question I have to ponder. I hate physical pain. It&#8217;s something I try to avoid as often as possible. I don&#8217;t even like drinking soda and other carbonated beverages that burn going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=12091\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">question : Would you rather be in physical or emotional pain?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120013,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12091\/revisions\/120013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}