{"id":3124,"date":"2020-05-25T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/25\/carpe-diem\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T12:33:24","slug":"carpe-diem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/25\/carpe-diem\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Carpe Diem!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0264e2dd8b2a200d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carpe diem skull\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0264e2dd8b2a200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0264e2dd8b2a200d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Carpe diem skull\" \/><\/a>Seize the day,&#0160; my friends, the hour of death is near for young and old alike.&#0160; How would you like death to find you?&#0160; In what condition, and immersed in which activity?&#0160; Contemplating the eternal or stuck in the mud of the mundane or lost in the diaspora of sensuous indulgence?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The clock is running, and in the game of life it is sudden death with no way of knowing when the flag will fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">For some of us the harvest years come late and we hope for many such years in which&#0160; to reap what we have sown, but we dare not count on them.&#0160; For another and greater Reaper is gaining on us and we cannot stay the hand that wields the scythe that will cut us down. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seize the day,&#0160; my friends, the hour of death is near for young and old alike.&#0160; How would you like death to find you?&#0160; In what condition, and immersed in which activity?&#0160; Contemplating the eternal or stuck in the mud of the mundane or lost in the diaspora of sensuous indulgence? The clock is running, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/25\/carpe-diem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Carpe Diem!<\/i>&#8220;<\/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":[39,75,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-impermanence","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}