{"id":356,"date":"2008-03-18T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T13:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-03-18T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T13:10:14","slug":"brevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Brevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpts from My Journals<\/strong><br \/>\n<small>[Dated Summer 2001.  When I was reading Edith Hamilton&#8217;s <em>The Greek Way<\/em>.]<\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brief is the growing time of joy for mortals and brief the flowers bloom that falls to the earth shaken by grim fate.  Things of a day!  What are we and what are we not.  Man&#8217;s a shadows dream.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity of vanities: all is vanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=D3QwvF3GWOkC&amp;pg=PA64&amp;lpg=PA64&amp;dq=%22brief+is+the+growing+time+of+joy+for+mortals%22&amp;source=web&amp;ots=B89yOrFsce&amp;sig=oCJRWgLGVzhcZ85Udbl1ey3RDY4&amp;hl=en\">The Greek poet Pindar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from My Journals [Dated Summer 2001. When I was reading Edith Hamilton&#8217;s The Greek Way.] Brief is the growing time of joy for mortals and brief the flowers bloom that falls to the earth shaken by grim fate. Things of a day! What are we and what are we not. Man&#8217;s a shadows dream. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts-from-my-journals","category-prose"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8qcx-brevity","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}