{"id":14,"date":"2007-05-25T03:30:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/myths\/2007\/05\/25\/long-vermont-roads\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T03:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T07:30:58","slug":"long-vermont-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/2007\/05\/25\/long-vermont-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Vermont Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Age has begun to stalk comfortably in the long shadows cast by the receeding light of my youth.\u00a0 I turned 30.\u00a0 The benefit of age, the old tell us, is wisdom, which, as I understand it, is the fruit of hindsight, itself the sense of wonder that arises from realizing the staggering number of accidents that have resulted in one&#8217;s <em>survival<\/em>.\u00a0 Becoming accustomed, then, to looking back over my shoulder, I cannot help but be confronted by my earlier metaphor, and realize that it doesn&#8217;t make any sense,\u00a0 as it both involves some very novel cosmological theories (namely that youth, a category traditionally thought to be comprised by age, is\u00a0the\u00a0center of a solar system where time is a predator), and a system of physics where light casts shadows, rather than &#8211; well &#8211; <em>light<\/em>.\u00a0 What is age hunting? Why is it comfortable?\u00a0 The vacant look we find in the aged doubtless arises from their interminable struggle with just such questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age has begun to stalk comfortably in the long shadows cast by the receeding light of my youth.\u00a0 I turned 30.\u00a0 The benefit of age, the old tell us, is wisdom, which, as I understand it, is the fruit of hindsight, itself the sense of wonder that arises from realizing the staggering number of accidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/myths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}