{"id":29523,"date":"2026-03-30T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29523"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:51:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:51:50","slug":"what-is-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/30\/what-is-life\/","title":{"rendered":"What is life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW033026-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW033026-2.jpeg\" alt=\"What is life?\" class=\"wp-image-29519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW033026-2.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW033026-2-296x300.jpeg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW033026-2-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What is life?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since April is National Poetry Month, I&#8217;ll look to the poets for this one. For Shakespeare&#8217;s Jacques it was a player on the stage. For Pablo Neruda, it was a &#8220;borrowing of bones,&#8221; and it was &#8220;wild and precious&#8221; to Mary Oliver. To Maya Angelou, it &#8220;loves the liver of it.\u201d As Walt Whitman summed up, \u201cO me! O life!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since April is National Poetry Month, I&#8217;ll look to the poets for this one. For Shakespeare&#8217;s Jacques it was a player on the stage. For Pablo Neruda, it was a &#8220;borrowing of bones,&#8221; and it was &#8220;wild and precious&#8221; to Mary Oliver. To Maya Angelou, it &#8220;loves the liver of it.\u201d As Walt Whitman summed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/30\/what-is-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is 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-29523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523","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=29523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29548,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions\/29548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}