{"id":2417,"date":"2021-09-30T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/how-strange\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T05:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:21:30","slug":"how-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/how-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"How Strange!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">How strange it would be if death were to leave us all in the dark as to the ultimate why and wherefore!&#0160; How strange if no one knows, no one ever knew, and no one will ever know what it&#39;s all about.&#0160; And not because the Answer is hidden, but because there is none. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">If you say that it could be like that, I won&#39;t disagree. There is presumably and <em>prima vista<\/em> no presumption in favor of point, purpose, intelligibility and sense. But if you find nothing strange about this putative state of affairs, then I will view you and your spiritual vacancy with a mixture of pity and contempt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How strange it would be if death were to leave us all in the dark as to the ultimate why and wherefore!&#0160; How strange if no one knows, no one ever knew, and no one will ever know what it&#39;s all about.&#0160; And not because the Answer is hidden, but because there is none. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/how-strange\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Strange!&#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":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","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\/2417","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=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}