{"id":303,"date":"2025-02-07T10:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/last-days-last-things\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T10:15:08","slug":"last-days-last-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/last-days-last-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Days, Last Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">What better way to spend one&#39;s last days than by deep inquiry into the Last Things?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Would that not be a better use of time than gambling and fox hunting, and the other examples of Pascalian <em>divertissement<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You will soon be embarking <em>nolens volens<\/em> for a permanent stay in a foreign destination, departure date unknown. Are your affairs in order?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">For a good old introduction to the traditional Roman Catholic doctrine on death, the intermediate state, resurrection, judgment, and eternity, see Romano Guardini, <em>The Last Things<\/em>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to spend one&#39;s last days than by deep inquiry into the Last Things? Would that not be a better use of time than gambling and fox hunting, and the other examples of Pascalian divertissement? You will soon be embarking nolens volens for a permanent stay in a foreign destination, departure date unknown. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/last-days-last-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last Days, Last Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-last-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}