{"id":4257,"date":"2018-09-06T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/a-death-paradox\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:55:00","slug":"a-death-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/a-death-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Death Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The prospect of death, especially one&#39;s own, puts paid to frivolity. It makes us serious. The paradox, however, is that death, ineluctable and final, &#39;proves&#39; the absurdity of human existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Death imparts seriousness to a life that it also suggests is a joke.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of death, especially one&#39;s own, puts paid to frivolity. It makes us serious. The paradox, however, is that death, ineluctable and final, &#39;proves&#39; the absurdity of human existence. Death imparts seriousness to a life that it also suggests is a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,184,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-death-and-immortality","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257","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=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}