{"id":3153,"date":"2020-05-05T02:57:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/ostrich-on-a-ridge\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T02:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:57:52","slug":"ostrich-on-a-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/ostrich-on-a-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostrich on a Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I bring an ostrich to a high and narrow and slippery ridge.&#0160; I bid him consider the abyss to his left and the abyss to his right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&quot;You came from nothing to perch here a moment, but soon you will slide to your left and become nothing again. I speak in a parable to convey to you the truth of presentism: the present alone is real.&#0160; What is not yet is not; what is no longer is not.&#0160; Now is the time, transient as it is. No <em>nunc stans<\/em> for you; the <em>nunc movens<\/em> is all you&#39;ve got.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bring an ostrich to a high and narrow and slippery ridge.&#0160; I bid him consider the abyss to his left and the abyss to his right. &quot;You came from nothing to perch here a moment, but soon you will slide to your left and become nothing again. I speak in a parable to convey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/ostrich-on-a-ridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ostrich on a Ridge&#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":[514,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parables","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}