{"id":1586,"date":"2015-04-24T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2015-05-19T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:02:11","slug":"heroic-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/heroic-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Those \u00a0who speak \u2028of aging as a curse<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> sense the days they eke \u2028out could get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By habit they hallow \u2028victories of the young,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> whose run becomes hollow\u2028, soon enough unsung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As bursts of sprint \u2028merge into marathon<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> they reinvent \u2028the measure of having won.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speed yields to distance.\u2028 The brio of dash<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> topples before persistence, which trumps flash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And as they turn to lope, \u2028aiming to come in last,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> this remains their hope: \u2028cross not sooner but fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">***<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> In<\/span> <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=76\">The Skin of Things<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those \u00a0who speak \u2028of aging as a curse sense the days they eke \u2028out could get worse. By habit they hallow \u2028victories of the young, whose run becomes hollow\u2028, soon enough unsung. As bursts of sprint \u2028merge into marathon they reinvent \u2028the measure of having won. Speed yields to distance.\u2028 The brio of dash topples &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/heroic-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heroic Age&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}