{"id":12204,"date":"2009-11-17T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/ambition-and-age\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T12:38:24","slug":"ambition-and-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/ambition-and-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambition and Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Lack of ambition in the young is rightly seen as a defect. But here is an old man still driven by his old ambitions, none of which were of too lofty a nature. Is he not a fool? For his old ambitions, appropriate as they were in youth, have become absurd in old age.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">His upbringing was hard and his circumstances straitened. He early resolved to better himself economically, and he succeeded. Hard work and the old-time virtues brought him&#0160;wealth. But having &#39;arrived,&#39; he did not know what to do with his arrival except to keep on piling up loot. Loot, however, is but a means to end, and our old man&#39;s ends are, like he himself, coming to an end.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It is time for him to abandon ambition and fly into the arms of fair Philosophia, there to meditate on such truths as: One cannot tow a U-Haul with a hearse. But death, the muse of philosophy, will catch him long before it a-muses him. The Reaper&#39;s scythe will cut him down before it moves him to thought.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of ambition in the young is rightly seen as a defect. But here is an old man still driven by his old ambitions, none of which were of too lofty a nature. Is he not a fool? For his old ambitions, appropriate as they were in youth, have become absurd in old age. His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/ambition-and-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ambition and Age&#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":[544,39,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition","category-human-predicament","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","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=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}