{"id":63,"date":"2005-04-06T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4gi.wtf\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:17:25","slug":"what-profit-then-in-contemplating-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"What Profit, then, in contemplating ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-size: small;\">W<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">HAT PROFIT<\/span>, then, in contemplating ends\r\nWhile things begin, at midpoint, at the last?\r\nWe know that tricky time just warps and bends\r\nPerceptions of our now, our then, our past.\r\nWe celebrate a birth e'en though we know\r\nThat fleeting fame leads only to the grave:\r\nBut for this life, death would not be a foe\r\n'Tis ends make moments rare enough to save.\r\nIndeed, our moments make eternity,\r\nWhat matters matters 'twixt myself and thou,\r\nConnects the ancient with modernity:\r\nThe only true forever happens now.\r\n  To know that night will fall before too long\r\n  Must not diminish wonder at the dawn\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&#8212; <span class=\"twikiNewLink\"><a title=\"RonRisley (this topic does not yet exist; you can create it)\" href=\"http:\/\/looseassociations.com\/twiki\/bin\/edit\/Main\/RonRisley?topicparent=Looseassociations.WhatProfitThenInContemplatingEnds;nowysiwyg=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">RonRisley<\/a><\/span> &#8211; 06 Apr 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT PROFIT, then, in contemplating ends While things begin, at midpoint, at the last? We know that tricky time just warps and bends Perceptions of our now, our then, our past. We celebrate a birth e&#8217;en though we know That fleeting fame leads only to the grave: But for this life, death would not be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=63\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Profit, then, in contemplating ends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}