{"id":11781,"date":"2010-03-08T16:36:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/08\/our-humble-port-of-entry\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:36:25","slug":"our-humble-port-of-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/08\/our-humble-port-of-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Humble Port of Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">We humans are surprisingly proud given our lowly and inauspicious&#0160;entrance into the world. In a line often attributed to St. Augustine,&#0160;<em>Inter faeces et urinam nascimur<\/em>: we are born between feces and urine. And we revert soon enough to something of equal value: dust and ashes.&#0160;&#0160; Entry through a vagina, exit through a smokestack. On and off the&#0160; stage in a manner most unbecoming and most unlike our proud strut upon&#0160; it.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We humans are surprisingly proud given our lowly and inauspicious&#0160;entrance into the world. In a line often attributed to St. Augustine,&#0160;Inter faeces et urinam nascimur: we are born between feces and urine. And we revert soon enough to something of equal value: dust and ashes.&#0160;&#0160; Entry through a vagina, exit through a smokestack. On and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/08\/our-humble-port-of-entry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Humble Port of Entry&#8221;<\/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":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","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=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}