{"id":9241,"date":"2016-02-22T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9241"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:14:39","slug":"mostly-nothing-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2016\/02\/22\/mostly-nothing-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Nothing Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the end, people don&#8217;t view their life as merely the average of all its moments &#8212; which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people&#8217;s minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the end, people don&#8217;t view their life as merely the average of all its moments &#8212; which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241","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=9241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9241\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}