{"id":244,"date":"2020-04-01T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:43:43","slug":"youre-already-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/youre-already-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re already dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cA dragon lives forever, but not so little girls and boys. Painted wings and giants\u2019 rings make way for other toys.\u201d \u2014Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was singing Puff the Magic from a book to my 2-year-old daughter this morning and I was struck by these lines. Little girls and boys don\u2019t live forever. They die and become medium-sized girls and boys, who then die and become big girls and boys. My 2-year-old son became a 3-year-old and then a 4-year-old, and now that 2-year-old is gone forever. It is as they say: You can\u2019t step in the same river twice. For better or worse, it\u2019s all water under the bridge. This means you\u2019re dead already. The breath you took when you started reading this paragraph came and went and is now gone forever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s your chance. Go for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA dragon lives forever, but not so little girls and boys. Painted wings and giants\u2019 rings make way for other toys.\u201d \u2014Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton I was singing Puff the Magic from a book to my 2-year-old daughter this morning and I was struck by these lines. Little girls and boys don\u2019t live forever. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/youre-already-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You&#8217;re already dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}