{"id":2129,"date":"2014-03-17T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T11:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/17\/to-live-fully-we-must-be-occasionally-reminded\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:50","slug":"to-live-fully-we-must-be-occasionally-reminded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/17\/to-live-fully-we-must-be-occasionally-reminded\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>To live fully, we must be occasionally reminded that we, and those around us, will not live forever.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2014\/02\/27\/demons-by-candelight\/\">Demons by Candelight<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Venkatesh Rao on the meditative virtues of power outages for (my words). I\u2019m not entirely convinced by the final section suggesting information technology is a new kind of illumination with its own kind of sunlight\/electricity (work\/life) balance. But I do yearn for the enforced stillness I experienced during blackouts while briefly living in Costa Rica.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To live fully, we must be occasionally reminded that we, and those around us, will not live forever. Demons by Candelight Venkatesh Rao on the meditative virtues of power outages for (my words). I\u2019m not entirely convinced by the final section suggesting information technology is a new kind of illumination with its own kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/17\/to-live-fully-we-must-be-occasionally-reminded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}