{"id":2541,"date":"2008-09-10T20:59:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T01:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2008-09-13T19:05:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T00:05:17","slug":"welcome-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2541","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend of mine laments that everything in his life is in some state of disrepair, and if he lives to be 200 years old he&#8217;ll never get it all fixed. <\/p>\n<p>I have windows in need of repair. Some stuff needs to be done to all four cars AND the motorcycle. I hate to think what the house&#8217;s electrical system has in store for me. I told him what I said at Steve&#8217;s, some weeks ago, I don&#8217;t remember in regard to what. <\/p>\n<p>Life is a rope. You&#8217;re Jiminez. Lee Marvin and his grease gun are Entropy. Deal with it. Climb or die. <\/p>\n<p>Then it occurred to me- I&#8217;m an entropy warrior. A certain number of us are. Those of us who fix, who maintain, who keep things. A bunch of folks who keep the planet in a coherent form for another day. <a href=\"http:\/\/twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com\/\">Roberta <\/a>is one.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babytrollblog.com\/\">Alger.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconservativeuawguy.blogspot.com\/\">Jimmy.<\/a> Dick, linkless though he is. Anyone who toils regularly to make sure things are, as they are, a little longer. <\/p>\n<p>A larger number of people create or amplify entropy. <\/p>\n<p>In auto repair or home maintenance, or government or communications, entropy is winning. And it probably always will. Are you an entropy warrier? What do you do to slow the decay? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend of mine laments that everything in his life is in some state of disrepair, and if he lives to be 200 years old he&#8217;ll never get it all fixed. I have windows in need of repair. Some stuff needs to be done to all four cars AND the motorcycle. I hate to think what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invisible-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}