{"id":55,"date":"2025-08-05T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/pastime\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:13:19","slug":"pastime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/pastime\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pastime&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Whatever we are here for, we are not here to pass time. Our time is to be used and used well. You say it doesn&#39;t matter how we spend our time since nothing matters? That may or may not be so.&#0160; But it matters which.&#0160; If something does matter and you live as if nothing matters you may end up not only having wasted your time but&#0160; your eternity as well. So time&#0160; spent getting to the bottom of this question is time well spent.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever we are here for, we are not here to pass time. Our time is to be used and used well. You say it doesn&#39;t matter how we spend our time since nothing matters? That may or may not be so.&#0160; But it matters which.&#0160; If something does matter and you live as if nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/pastime\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Pastime&#8217;&#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":[69,6,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-language-matters","category-meaning-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}