{"id":1328,"date":"2025-07-20T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/quotes\/?p=121"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T04:18:10","slug":"longing-after-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2025\/07\/20\/longing-after-immortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing After Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be so&#8211;Plato, thou reasonest well!&#8211;<br \/>\n  Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,<br \/>\n    This longing after immortality?<br \/>\n      Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,<br \/>\n        O falling into nought?  Why shrinks the soul<br \/>\n          Back on herself, and startles at destruction?<br \/>\n            &#8216;Tis the divinity that stirs within us;<br \/>\n              &#8216;Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,<br \/>\n                And intimates eternity to man.<br \/>\n~Joseph Addison, Cato (act V, sc. 1)~<\/p>\n<div id=\"viewBox-p121\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?random\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be so&#8211;Plato, thou reasonest well!&#8211; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? &#8216;Tis the divinity that stirs within us; &#8216;Tis heaven itself, that points out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24690,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/24690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}