{"id":10677,"date":"2019-10-14T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2019-10-15T16:49:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:49:59","slug":"whats-the-meaning-of-life-for-a-wall-or-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/14\/whats-the-meaning-of-life-for-a-wall-or-human\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the meaning of life (for a wall, or human)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10142019-05.jpg\" alt=\"What's the meaning of life (for a wall, or human)?\" class=\"wp-image-10665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10142019-05.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10142019-05-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10142019-05-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AW10142019-05-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>What&#8217;s the meaning of life (for a wall, or human)?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m rather fond of my answer to this question from September 2017, so I&#8217;m going to be mindful of recycle it:  42! (PR6051.D3352 H5 1989) In all seriousness, Frederick Buechner said in <em>Wishful Thinking : A Seeker&#8217;s ABC<\/em> (BR95 .B785 1993), \u201cThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world&#8217;s deep hunger meet.\u201d which seems like a pretty good answer to this wall. A variation of this would be Fr. Michael Himes\u2019 \u201cThree Key Questions\u201d:  1. What brings me joy?  2. What am I good at?  3. What does the world need me to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m rather fond of my answer to this question from September 2017, so I&#8217;m going to be mindful of recycle it: 42! (PR6051.D3352 H5 1989) In all seriousness, Frederick Buechner said in Wishful Thinking : A Seeker&#8217;s ABC (BR95 .B785 1993), \u201cThe place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/10\/14\/whats-the-meaning-of-life-for-a-wall-or-human\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s the meaning of life (for a wall, or human)?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10690,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/10690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}