{"id":2408,"date":"2021-10-07T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-2\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T04:15:24","slug":"the-long-and-the-short-of-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long and the Short of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The young, their lives ahead of them, <em>think<\/em> life is long; the old, their lives ending, <em>know<\/em> that it is short. Why knowledge in the second case? Because the old, some of them anyway, are surveyors of life and not mere livers of it.&#0160; This suggests that the old who lose themselves&#0160; in the quotidian round&#0160; may avoid the view from above and cultivate thereby a life-enhancing illusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Not<\/em> filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/sage_advice_how_to_live\/\">Sage Advice<\/a>, but under <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/art-of-life\/\">Art of Life<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young, their lives ahead of them, think life is long; the old, their lives ending, know that it is short. Why knowledge in the second case? Because the old, some of them anyway, are surveyors of life and not mere livers of it.&#0160; This suggests that the old who lose themselves&#0160; in the quotidian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/10\/07\/the-long-and-the-short-of-it-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Long and the Short of It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,69,406,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-art-of-life","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","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=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}