{"id":310,"date":"2016-05-02T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/?p=310"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:54:40","slug":"random-thought-99-my-purpose-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/2016\/05\/02\/random-thought-99-my-purpose-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thought #99 &#8211; My purpose in life &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Perhaps one&#8217;s real purpose in life is encapsulated in a solitary moment; a few seconds or minutes in which massive actions, achievements or actions take place. I personally think it is a matter of a few seconds. It may be in the past. It may yet lie ahead.<br \/>\nPerhaps &#8220;meaning&#8221; is simply understanding and recognizing those few brief moments; and realising and recognizing the magnitude and the magnificence of those moments. Perhaps to feel &#8220;fulfilled&#8221; is simply to recognize the fact that one may well have already lived that moment. If not, the adventure is the deliberate pursuit of such a moment. Let the games begin!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one&#8217;s real purpose in life is encapsulated in a solitary moment; a few seconds or minutes in which massive actions, achievements or actions take place. I personally think it is a matter of a few seconds. It may be in the past. It may yet lie ahead. Perhaps &#8220;meaning&#8221; is simply understanding and recognizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}