{"id":16938,"date":"2021-11-22T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=16938"},"modified":"2021-11-22T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T21:10:46","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-life-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/11\/22\/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-4\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aw112221-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aw112221-2.jpg\" alt=\"What is the meaning of life?\" class=\"wp-image-16919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aw112221-2.jpg 318w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aw112221-2-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aw112221-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/aw112221-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>What is the meaning of life?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not a theologian or philosopher (who are the people often tasked with answering this question), and yet I&#8217;m asked this regularly. I hear so many questions that I&#8217;m starting to think that at least one meaning of life is the pursuit of the meaning of life. But there could be as many meanings as lives. I think another involves gratitude for the incredible mysteries and miracles that life gives us daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a theologian or philosopher (who are the people often tasked with answering this question), and yet I&#8217;m asked this regularly. I hear so many questions that I&#8217;m starting to think that at least one meaning of life is the pursuit of the meaning of life. But there could be as many meanings as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/11\/22\/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the meaning of life?&#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-16938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938","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=16938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16951,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16938\/revisions\/16951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}