{"id":277858,"date":"2018-06-11T06:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=277858"},"modified":"2018-06-11T06:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:06:49","slug":"growing-older-norms-knowing-older-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/growing-older-norms-knowing-older-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Older Norms, Knowing Older Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAntiquitas saeculi, Juventus mundi. The old age of the world\u2026is the attribute of our own times, not of that earlier age in which the ancients lived; and which, though in respect of us it was the elder, yet in respect of the world it was younger.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n\u2014Aphorism 84, Novum Organum, Francis Bacon<br \/>\nEnglish philosopher, scientist (b.1561- d.1626)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWell at sixty-eight I\u2019m not growing bolder<br \/>\nmy knees prevent a lot of get up and boogie<br \/>\nI don\u2019t need a cold beer to be any colder<br \/>\ngotta slow down on just one more cookie.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHowever, knowing about certain older things is great<br \/>\nlearning about particle physics and quantum theory<br \/>\nno problem if I forget the years since Big Bang\u2019s date<br \/>\nabout distant stars and light years I constantly query.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOlder music, European Renaissance through to Baroque<br \/>\nolder musical instruments: strings, woodwinds, and brass<br \/>\nrelax, tranquillize, sedate and prevent me having a stroke<br \/>\nprovide daily and nightly company with my parting glass.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMy short-term memory is increasing, seems to never fail<br \/>\nbut I don\u2019t remember that as through new knowing I sail.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Sophomoric Sass About our Time to Pass<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI was washing the early evening pots and dinner dishes<br \/>\nnot thinking about anything special or bucket list wishes<br \/>\nand I got to thinking about what in life comes next<br \/>\nwhat do I need to know about those next tomorrows<br \/>\ncould I find some answers to that in any given text<br \/>\nwhy not just accept all the joys and upcoming sorrows<br \/>\nwhat about all the other more problematic personal stuff<br \/>\nhow to deal with and face it whatever you want to call it<br \/>\nhow much false bravado, who wants to hear my guff<br \/>\ndeath is on the horizon coming closer you can\u2019t stall it<br \/>\nnot many seasons longer not too many summers left<br \/>\nwinter snows color white my beard and hairs on my head<br \/>\nGrandfather Time is always successful with life theft<br \/>\nno way to deny it sooner or later we will all be dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAntiquitas saeculi, Juventus mundi. The old age of the world\u2026is the attribute of our own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21524,21525,21,21526],"class_list":["post-277858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-francis-bacon","tag-grandfather-time","tag-life","tag-novum-organum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}