{"id":10696,"date":"2011-05-16T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/spend-it-now-or-pass-it-on\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:22:19","slug":"spend-it-now-or-pass-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/spend-it-now-or-pass-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Spend It Now or Pass It On?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quality of  his heirs
Must give pause
To him whose loot
Is slated for their jaws.<\/span><\/p>\n

A rather more classical meditation on this theme we find in  Horace.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quis scit an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae <\/em><\/span>
     tempora di superi? <\/em><\/span>
Cuncta manus avidas fugient heredis, amico <\/em><\/span>
     quae dederis animo.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

Who knows if Jove who counts our score <\/span>
Will toss us in a morning more? <\/span>
What with your friend you nobly share <\/span>
At least you rescue from your heir. (Samuel Johnson)<\/span><\/p>\n

Who know if the gods above will add the hours of tomorrow <\/span>
 to the total of today? <\/span>
Whatever you give to your own dear self will escape <\/span>
 the greedy hands of your heir. (David West)<\/span><\/p>\n

Who knows if heav\u2019n will give to-morrow\u2019s boon <\/span>
 To this our daily pray\u2019r? <\/span>
The goods you take to keep your soul in tune, <\/span>
 Shall scape your greedy heir. (Christopher Smart)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quality of  his heirsMust give pauseTo him whose lootIs slated for their jaws. A rather more classical meditation on this theme we find in  Horace. Quis scit an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae      tempora di superi? Cuncta manus avidas fugient heredis, amico      quae dederis animo.  Who knows if Jove who counts our score Will toss … Continue reading “Spend It Now or Pass It On?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}