{"id":2724,"date":"2021-02-07T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/a-vocation-not-a-job\/"},"modified":"2021-02-07T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:34:25","slug":"a-vocation-not-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/a-vocation-not-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vocation, not a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Heading out the door for a walk, the wife invited me along. I told her I had too much to do, that the clock was running, the format sudden death, the time-control unknown.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">&quot;But you&#39;re retired.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I reminded her that philosophy is my vocation.&#0160; One can be retired from the largely meaningless job of teaching the unteachable, but one can never be retired from one&#39;s vocation in the proper sense of that term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I hope to have my boots on when the flag falls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">In what state will death find you when the Reaper&#39;s scythe cuts you down?&#0160; Will it matter? Is that a question that needs to be investigated?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading out the door for a walk, the wife invited me along. I told her I had too much to do, that the clock was running, the format sudden death, the time-control unknown.&#0160; &quot;But you&#39;re retired.&quot; I reminded her that philosophy is my vocation.&#0160; One can be retired from the largely meaningless job of teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/a-vocation-not-a-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Vocation, not a Job&#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":[92,184,318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-death-and-immortality","category-leisure-and-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}