{"id":5464,"date":"2012-04-15T04:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2012-04-15T05:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T12:04:46","slug":"is-it-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/is-it-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Too Late?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A being of vast ability and unlimited potential&#8211;with a brain capable of complex and soaring self reflection&#8230;legs made to dance and run&#8230;fingers nimble enough to weave a basket, play a violin, caress a face&#8211;if nature teaches us anything, it is that life is meant to work&#8230;and that like every living thing, our purpose is to thrive. And yet, for the majority of people on the planet, life is not about thriving. It&#8217;s about surviving&#8230;just trying to hang on. Is this really the best we can do? Did the universe labor for nearly 14 billion years only to bring forth a species that would end up as an enemy to life itself&#8230;and its own home?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THRIVE is a stunning, lyrically composed video addressing this issue:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEV5AFFcZ-s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ps: Within memory, there was a time when the sky seen in the background would have been blue. The haze you see is a direct result of industrial and vehicular pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A being of vast ability and unlimited potential&#8211;with a brain capable of complex and soaring self reflection&#8230;legs made to dance and run&#8230;fingers nimble enough to weave a basket, play a violin, caress a face&#8211;if nature teaches us anything, it is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/is-it-too-late\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}