{"id":23261,"date":"2019-05-31T20:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23261"},"modified":"2019-06-10T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T16:09:00","slug":"death-reflections-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/05\/death-reflections-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Reflections #21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?resize=1500%2C1004&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?resize=96%2C64&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?resize=768%2C514&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?resize=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/camus.jpg?resize=140%2C94&amp;ssl=1 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From: &#8216;<\/strong>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> Just as it is with storytelling, so with life: it&#8217;s important how well it is done, not how long&#8230; It doesn&#8217;t matter at what point you call a halt. Stop wherever you like; only put a good closer on it. (Epistle 77.5-20)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong>&nbsp;Quality over quantity applies not just to everything in life, but to life itself too. A bad beginning does not matter if there is a good ending.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-23261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261","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=23261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}