{"id":259,"date":"2016-08-29T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2016-08-29T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:45:53","slug":"born-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Born to live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Born-to-live_PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Born-to-live_PIC-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Born to live_PIC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Born-to-live_PIC-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Born-to-live_PIC-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Born-to-live_PIC-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Born-to-live_PIC.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life is so beautiful: see the sea and sky!<br \/>\nWe are born to live; no one is born to die.<br \/>\nThere can be storms at times, gales and hail and ice,<br \/>\nBut they all disappear when sun and winds arise.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the end of space? What stops the growth of time?<br \/>\nWhy is the day divided in two contrasting halves?<br \/>\nWhy does the Earth look flat while up is a vertical line?<br \/>\nWhy do some creatures crawl while others fly and shine?<\/p>\n<p>Why is \u201cborn\u201d and \u201cdie\u201d a must and not a choice,<br \/>\nBut in between we are free to use our own voice?<br \/>\nIf we were born to die, why is there up and down?<br \/>\nWouldn\u2019t it be righter to live like worms in ground?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, part of us will die and form an earthly crust<br \/>\nBut will the other part be always rust and dust?<br \/>\nThe body turns to dust, the undertaker knows,<br \/>\nBut does the soul inside conclude its talent shows?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never been a crust; a crust can have no feelings;<br \/>\nAnd it cannot conceive existing things or beings.<br \/>\nNor can it choose to be as night or bright daylight<br \/>\nAnd blind a person\u2019s sight or help him walk aright.<\/p>\n<p>If we can freely choose to go up or down,<br \/>\nThis maybe shows us the options for the soul?<br \/>\nDown means dig the earth and reach a fiery core<br \/>\nWhile up is fly the sky and never hit a shore.<\/p>\n<p>Lil<br \/>\n07\/07\/2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Life is so beautiful: see the sea and sky! We are born to live; no one is born to die. There can be storms at times, gales and hail and ice, But they all disappear when sun and winds arise. Where is the end of space? What stops the growth of time? Why is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}