{"id":4638,"date":"2013-12-25T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2013-12-25T10:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T18:03:01","slug":"a-christmas-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4638","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Wish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Things fall apart, <\/i>Yeats wrote. He didn&#8217;t know the half of it.<\/p>\n<p>He was obsessed with trivia: Humanity, Good and Evil, angry imaginary gods. But it&#8217;s not just some rickety social construct coming apart at the seams. It&#8217;s the whole fucking universe. There&#8217;s no second coming for <i>our<\/i> cosmos, no Big Crunch after the Bang, no comforting closed cycle of annihilation and renewal. Einstein&#8217;s accursed constant pushes galaxy from galaxy, world from world, in a spiral of endless increasing isolation; it may have been <i>Let There Be Light <\/i>back at the overture but after all this drama the final curtain falls on an empty stage. We get lonelier with each second. And if somebody doesn&#8217;t do something in the next ten or fifteen billion years, everyone else \u2015 every<i>thing <\/i>else \u2015 just <i>vanishes<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If I say <i>yes<\/i>, maybe I can get a head start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things fall apart, Yeats wrote. He didn&#8217;t know the half of it. He was obsessed with trivia: Humanity, Good and Evil, angry imaginary gods. But it&#8217;s not just some rickety social construct coming apart at the seams. It&#8217;s the whole fucking universe. There&#8217;s no second coming for our cosmos, no Big Crunch after the Bang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiblet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}