{"id":1284,"date":"2019-10-05T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2019-10-05T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T05:05:08","slug":"the-specious-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/10\/05\/the-specious-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The Specious Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The vast, expanding portion of the universe <br>\nthat is inanimate<br>\nhas neither a past nor regret.<br>\nEntropy is inexorable and oblivious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only the biosphere has a past,<br>\nbut it has passed<br>\nthe instant it has been.<br>\nRegret is in the present,<br>\nthe specious present,<br>\nand it is more dread than regret.<br>\nAnd dread is for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let life go on.<br>\nBlot out only sentience.<br>\nEt nunc et semper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast, expanding portion of the universe that is inanimate has neither a past nor regret. Entropy is inexorable and oblivious. Only the biosphere has a past, but it has passed the instant it has been. Regret is in the present, the specious present, and it is more dread than regret. And dread is for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/10\/05\/the-specious-present\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Specious Present&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}