{"id":448,"date":"2004-05-30T01:58:01","date_gmt":"2004-05-30T09:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/30\/life-is-as-thin-as-the-wind\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:47","slug":"life-is-as-thin-as-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/30\/life-is-as-thin-as-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Is As Thin As The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nMen drop to the earth like leaves<br \/>\nLives as brief as footprints in snow.<br \/>\nBristlecones enthroned on top of the world<br \/>\nWatch civilizations come and go.<br \/>\nThey seek our secret, immortality,<br \/>\nBut search in vain, for it is vanity.<br \/>\nIf truth be known I would rather<br \/>\nbe a flower, or a leaf that lives<br \/>\nand breathes with brief intensity.<br \/>\nMy life is as thin as the wind<br \/>\nAnd I am done with counting stars.<br \/>\nOn the side of this mountain<br \/>\nI might live forever,<br \/>\nCould you imagine anything worse?<br \/>\nMy name is Methuselah and this is my curse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Roger McGough<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This poem is from the <a title=\"NOVA Online | Methuselah Tree | The Oldest Tree on Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/methuselah\/poems.html\">NOVA program on the Methuselah Tree<\/a>, the oldest tree on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men drop to the earth like leaves Lives as brief as footprints in snow. Bristlecones enthroned on top of the world Watch civilizations come and go. They seek our secret, immortality, But search in vain, for it is vanity. If truth be known I would rather be a flower, or a leaf that lives and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12920,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}