{"id":9581,"date":"2012-07-05T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/wise-man-and-fool-on-their-death-beds\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:00:40","slug":"wise-man-and-fool-on-their-death-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/wise-man-and-fool-on-their-death-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Man and Fool on Their Death Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Wise man:&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This world is a vanishing quantity.&#0160; I am glad soon to be quit of it.&#0160; It has nothing to offer in the end but bagatelles that can fool only the foolish and must leave the wise unsatisfied.&#0160; <em>Vanitas vanitatum; omnia vanitas.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Fool:&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Do not go gentle into that good night, <br \/><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Old age should burn and rage at close of day; <br \/>Rage, rage against the <br \/>dying of the light. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Wise man:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Clever verse from a drunken fool to be admired by adolescents.&#0160; It amounts to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong>Do not go gentle from this dark Cave,<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong>Old age should cherish its lack of sight:<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong>But rage, rage against the gaining of the Light.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wise man:&#0160; This world is a vanishing quantity.&#0160; I am glad soon to be quit of it.&#0160; It has nothing to offer in the end but bagatelles that can fool only the foolish and must leave the wise unsatisfied.&#0160; Vanitas vanitatum; omnia vanitas. Fool:&#0160; Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/wise-man-and-fool-on-their-death-beds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wise Man and Fool on Their Death Beds&#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":[184,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","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=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}