{"id":252,"date":"2020-05-19T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-05-19T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:54:34","slug":"a-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/a-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"[Repost] A Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wildsummerrose.com\/header.png\" alt=\"a photo of the author regarding an image of her grandmother sitting under a portrait of her grandmother's younger self.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.7em;\">I originally published this on my <a href=\"http:\/\/wildsummerrose.com\/a-reminder.html\">other website<\/a>. I&#8217;m reposting it here so that it&#8217;s more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#recording\">Audio recording<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything you cherish about your appearance will one day be gone.<br>Your beauty will fade.<br>Your hair will thin and fall out.<br>Your body will slump and puff in ways you never expected or asked for, <br>bowed down and filled up with the weight of years.<br>Your health will diminish.<br>The people you know and love will move away, grow distant, die.<br>Someday, you will die too.<br>This is the nature of life. <br>&#8220;You can&#8217;t take it with you&#8221;, <br>and the only things you can leave behind, with any hope of a meaningful endurance are these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words that you write<br>The good that you do in the world<br>And the memories that people have of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask yourself who you want to be<br>In the stories that are told at your wake<br>And strive to be that person<br>Every day<br>Every hour<br>Every minute<br>And even to the instant of your last breath<br>You will be rendered B E A U T I F U L<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div>\n<h3>Audio Recording:<\/h3>\n<audio controls=\"\">\n<source src=\"http:\/\/wildsummerrose.com\/reminder.wav\" type=\"audio\/wav\">\nYour browser does not support the audio element.\n<\/audio>\n<a href=\"#\" name=\"recording\" id=\"recording\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I originally published this on my other website. I&#8217;m reposting it here so that it&#8217;s more accessible. Audio recording Everything you cherish about your appearance will one day be gone.Your beauty will fade.Your hair will thin and fall out.Your body will slump and puff in ways you never expected or asked for, bowed down and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/a-reminder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Repost] A Reminder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,19],"tags":[46,42,41],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-life_philosophy","category-poetry","tag-musings","tag-philosophizing","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everydaymagic.xyz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}