{"id":11774,"date":"2010-03-10T18:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/10\/ersatz-eternity-2\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T18:39:24","slug":"ersatz-eternity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/10\/ersatz-eternity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ersatz Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">What has been, though it needn&#39;t have been, always will have been.&#0160;&#0160;What time has mothered, no future time can touch.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;What you were and that you were stands forever inscribed in the roster of being whether or not anyone will read the record.&#0160; You will die, but your having lived will never die.&#0160; But how paltry the ersatz eternity of time&#39;s progeny!&#0160; Time has made you and will unmake you.&#0160; In compensation, she allows <em>your having been<\/em> to rise above the reach of the flux.&#0160; Thanks a lot, bitch!&#0160; You are one <em>mater dolorosa<\/em> whose consolation is as&#0160;petty as your penance is hard.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has been, though it needn&#39;t have been, always will have been.&#0160;&#0160;What time has mothered, no future time can touch.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;What you were and that you were stands forever inscribed in the roster of being whether or not anyone will read the record.&#0160; You will die, but your having lived will never die.&#0160; But how paltry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/10\/ersatz-eternity-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ersatz Eternity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774","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=11774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}