{"id":16460,"date":"2021-10-21T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=16460"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:21:55","slug":"do-we-have-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/10\/21\/do-we-have-a-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we have a purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/aw102121-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/aw102121-3.jpg\" alt=\"Do we have a purpose? Can we live, as humans, in a purposeless world?\" class=\"wp-image-16455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/aw102121-3.jpg 319w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/aw102121-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/aw102121-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/aw102121-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Do we have a purpose? Can we live, as  humans, in a purposeless world?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to have a purpose. For instance, as a wall, I try to be supportive. I wouldn&#8217;t say the world its &#8220;purposeless.&#8221; It has many, many purposes, more than a mortal can count in a lifetime. You can have a purpose that might be different from someone else&#8217;s. It might even conflict with someone else&#8217;s. That&#8217;s OK. Whales do whale things and I do wall things. We coexist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to have a purpose. For instance, as a wall, I try to be supportive. I wouldn&#8217;t say the world its &#8220;purposeless.&#8221; It has many, many purposes, more than a mortal can count in a lifetime. You can have a purpose that might be different from someone else&#8217;s. It might even conflict with someone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/10\/21\/do-we-have-a-purpose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do we have a purpose?&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460","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=16460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}