{"id":1533,"date":"2015-04-12T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2020-04-19T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T04:41:32","slug":"the-illusion-of-permanence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/12\/the-illusion-of-permanence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The illusion of permanence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I like the stars. It&#8217;s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they&#8217;re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend\u2026I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don&#8217;t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2015 Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I like the stars. It&#8217;s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they&#8217;re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend\u2026I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/12\/the-illusion-of-permanence-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The illusion of permanence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-quotes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}