{"id":3493,"date":"2015-11-26T20:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T20:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2015-11-26T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T20:03:37","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/11\/26\/time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even as a child I knew this time would come when much in the past would be gone by and I would miss it.\u00a0 Occasionally I&#8217;ll have dreams where I&#8217;ll be back in my childhood and re-experience it.\u00a0 My childhood was less than optimal in many ways, yet there is much from that time that I miss and usually those dreams omit the negative parts of the past and only feature the positive parts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One aspect of the Bible&#8217;s description of heaven that deeply troubles me is that it tells us that people who don&#8217;t make it, we won&#8217;t remember them.\u00a0 It seems on this planet God is very deeply against interfering with free will, yet cutting out a portion of my memories seems like the ultimate violation.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not at all comfortable with that, it seems like omitting part of the truth is living a lie and God is not supposed to be about lies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even as a child I knew this time would come when much in the past would be gone by and I would miss it.\u00a0 Occasionally I&#8217;ll have dreams where I&#8217;ll be back in my childhood and re-experience it.\u00a0 My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/11\/26\/time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}