{"id":28382,"date":"2026-04-26T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28382"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:12:31","slug":"mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28382","title":{"rendered":"Mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>We think that we will live forever<br \/>\nThough no one&#8217;s managed it before.<br \/>\n&#8220;Death won&#8217;t get me, I&#8217;m too clever&#8221;<br \/>\nSaid everyone, since days of yore.<br \/>\nBut time and age will do their damage<br \/>\nNo matter what we say or do,<br \/>\nYet even so, we somehow manage<br \/>\nTo tell ourselves it isn&#8217;t true,<br \/>\nAnd faced with grim reality<br \/>\nBelieve that Death will not arrive.<br \/>\nOur case for Immortality?<br \/>\nEvery one on earth is still alive.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think that we will live forever Though no one&#8217;s managed it before. &#8220;Death won&#8217;t get me, I&#8217;m too clever&#8221; Said everyone, since days of yore. But time and age will do their damage No matter what we say or do, Yet even so, we somehow manage To tell ourselves it isn&#8217;t true, And faced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mortality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28386,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions\/28386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}