{"id":7875,"date":"2016-10-16T10:06:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:06:39","slug":"our-life-is-but-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/our-life-is-but-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Our life is but lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our life is but lent; a good whereof to make, during the loan, our best commodity. \u00a0It is a debt due to a more certain owner than ourselves, and therefore so long as we have it, we receive a benefit; when we are deprived of it, we suffer no wrong. We are tenants at will of this clayey farm, not for any term of years; when we are warned out, we must be ready to remove, having no other title but the owner&#8217;s pleasure. \u00a0It is but an inn, not a home; we came but to bait, not to dwell; and the condition of our entrance was finally to depart. If this departure be grievous, it is also common; this today to me, tomorrow to thee; and the case equally affecting all, leaves none any cause to complain of injurious usage.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/07\/east-of-my-days-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Southwell SJ<\/a>: <em>The Triumphs over Death.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our life is but lent; a good whereof to make, during the loan, our best commodity. \u00a0It is a debt due to a more certain owner than ourselves, and therefore so long as we have it, we receive a benefit; when we are deprived of it, we suffer no wrong. We are tenants at will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,63,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits","category-poetry","category-religion","p1","y2016","m10","d16","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}