{"id":9359,"date":"2019-08-20T08:19:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2019-08-20T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T19:23:41","slug":"what-is-the-purpose-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/08\/20\/what-is-the-purpose-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the purpose of living?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/AW082019-1.jpg\" alt=\"What is the purpose of living? What goal do we need to achieve in order to truly be human?\" class=\"wp-image-9355\"\/><figcaption>What is the purpose of living? What goal do we need to achieve in order to truly be human?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Anais Nin, &#8220;there is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.\u201d Following this concept, I believe that striving for self-fulfimment would be a good start. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Anais Nin, &#8220;there is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.\u201d Following this concept, I believe that striving for self-fulfimment would be a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","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=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9364,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions\/9364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}