{"id":4060,"date":"2020-03-17T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:48:26","slug":"heroic-age-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/heroic-age-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroic Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This ditty began as topical response to the 2012 Olympics but \u00a0grew into something else reflecting my new station in life, retirement presumably penultimate to a t<\/i>erminus ad quem.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0*<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; text-align: left;\">We who speak<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">of aging as a curse<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">sense the days we eke<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">out could get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-317\" class=\"post-317 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By habit we hallow<br \/>\nvictories of the young<br \/>\nwhose run becomes hollow,<br \/>\nsoon enough unsung.<\/p>\n<p>Then bursts of sprint<br \/>\nmerge into marathon<br \/>\nand we reinvent<br \/>\nthe measure of having won.<\/p>\n<p>Speed yields to distance.<br \/>\nThe brio of dash<br \/>\ntopples before persistence,<br \/>\nwhich trumps flash.<\/p>\n<p>And as we turn to lope,<br \/>\naiming to come in last,<br \/>\nthis remains our hope:<br \/>\ncross not sooner but fast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"at-below-post-page addthis_tool\" data-url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/heroic-age\/\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments-area\">\n<div id=\"respond\" class=\"comment-respond\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ditty began as topical response to the 2012 Olympics but \u00a0grew into something else reflecting my new station in life, retirement presumably penultimate to a terminus ad quem.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0* We who speak of aging as a curse sense the days we eke out could get worse. By habit we hallow victories of the young &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/heroic-age-3\/\" 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,22,71],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-aging","tag-death","tag-light-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","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=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}