{"id":70200,"date":"2017-06-06T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/living-forever-would-be-boring"},"modified":"2017-06-06T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:22:19","slug":"living-forever-would-be-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/living-forever-would-be-boring","title":{"rendered":"Living forever would be boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief article I wrote to rebut the misconception that longer\u2014perhaps indefinite\u2014lifespans would cause eternal boredom.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Alright. So, some people object you don\u2019t want a very long lifespan because it would end up being boring. Even if a currently normal lifespan wasn\u2019t enough, they argue, something like two hundred years would be more than enough to do anything worth doing. I wouldn\u2019t bet my last cent on it.<\/p>\n<p>Meet John and Jack, both born in the year 1400. John says he regrets he will not live past 1500 1490 1470 (that\u2019s more like it). There are so many things he\u2019ll miss out on centuries from now, he says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/objections-to-living-forever\/living-forever-would-be-boring\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/ob...be-boring\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief article I wrote to rebut the misconception that longer\u2014perhaps indefinite\u2014lifespans would cause eternal boredom. Alright. So, some people object you don\u2019t want a very long lifespan because it would end up being boring. Even if a currently normal lifespan wasn\u2019t enough, they argue, something like two hundred years would be more than enough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}