{"id":5498,"date":"2016-05-05T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","slug":"the-future-and-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-future-and-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"The future and presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world. &#8211; [Alan Lightman, _Einstein&#8217;s Dreams_](https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/745803-in-a-world-without-future-each-moment-is-the-end)<\/p>\n<p>Of all the stories in this book, this sentence hit me hardest. How would you experience life if you believed every moment was the end of the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world. &#8211; [Alan Lightman, _Einstein&#8217;s Dreams_](https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/745803-in-a-world-without-future-each-moment-is-the-end) Of all the stories in this book, this sentence hit me hardest. How would you experience life if you believed every moment was the end of the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1qG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}