{"id":472,"date":"2011-01-12T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=472"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:25","slug":"472","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/472\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeting Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; In the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth,  or status, or power, or fame \u2013 but rather, how well we have loved, and  what small part we have played in bettering the lives of others.&#8221; &#8212; Barack Obama, January 12, 2011<\/p>\n<p>This man has a way of making parts of me that were dead and white with cynicism feel hopeful and alive again.\u00a0 I have to admire his resilience in talking about what is possible, when there is such a long way to go and so many obstacles to overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; In the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame \u2013 but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in bettering the lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/01\/472\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}