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Get busy with life\u2019s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Aurelius<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStop wandering about! You aren\u2019t likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the anthologies you\u2019ve collected to enjoy in your old age. Get busy with life\u2019s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue-if you care for yourself at all-and do it while you can.\u201d Marcus Aurelius<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-xYG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":140496,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/04\/26\/empty\/","url_meta":{"origin":130614,"position":0},"title":"Empty","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Just about everything that was worrying me has now paled into insignificance. 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