{"id":23195,"date":"2019-05-13T02:06:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T18:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23195"},"modified":"2019-05-20T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:29:53","slug":"death-reflections-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/05\/death-reflections-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Reflections #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23196 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?resize=3840%2C2160&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?w=3840&amp;ssl=1 3840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?resize=96%2C54&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/alive.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFrom:<\/strong> &#8216;How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life&#8217; by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> Nothing can be of such great benefit to you, in your quest for moderation in all things, than to frequently contemplate the brevity of one&#8217;s life span, and its uncertainty. Whatever you undertake, cast your eyes on death. (Epistle 114.27)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong>&nbsp;Deal with life&#8217;s brevity and uncertainty by accepting and remembering it &#8211; so that if can be lived with as much meaning as possible now &#8211; which certainly can be done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: &#8216;How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life&#8217; by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[59,149],"class_list":["post-23195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-impermanence","tag-meaning","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}