{"id":5481,"date":"2017-05-29T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/journeys-and-preparations-2\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T05:30:36","slug":"journeys-and-preparations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/journeys-and-preparations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Journeys and Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">We plan our journeys long and short.&#0160; We lay our plans for trips abroad well in advance.&#0160; And those who leave their homeland and emigrate to another country take special care.&#0160; Why then are we so careless about the journey on which all must embark and none return?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&quot;Because it is a journey into sheer nonexistence.&#0160; One needn&#39;t be concerned about a future self that won&#39;t exist!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Are you sure about that? Perhaps you are right; but how do you know?&#0160; Isn&#39;t this a question meriting some consideration?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We plan our journeys long and short.&#0160; We lay our plans for trips abroad well in advance.&#0160; And those who leave their homeland and emigrate to another country take special care.&#0160; Why then are we so careless about the journey on which all must embark and none return? &quot;Because it is a journey into sheer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/journeys-and-preparations-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Journeys and Preparations&#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":[184,39,72,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-human-predicament","category-sage-advice","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","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=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}