{"id":28837,"date":"2014-11-15T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=28837"},"modified":"2014-11-15T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T23:10:11","slug":"28837","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=28837","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we\u2019ve gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don\u2019t know what it is we\u2019re heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man\u2019s world is the planet of inexperience.<\/p>\n<p>Milan Kundera, in \u2018The Art of the Novel\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we\u2019ve gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don\u2019t know what it is we\u2019re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=28837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-general","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28838,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28837\/revisions\/28838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}