{"id":81609,"date":"2018-08-10T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T01:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-chance-encounter-in-a-graveyard-part-1"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T01:33:53","slug":"a-chance-encounter-in-a-graveyard-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-chance-encounter-in-a-graveyard-part-1","title":{"rendered":"A Chance Encounter in a Graveyard \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-chance-encounter-in-a-graveyard-part-12.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a fictional story about a man realizing for the first time, under rather unusual circumstances, that he has a deep desire not to age and die.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a few months already, yet that day still feels like yesterday. I am still not convinced that I didn\u2019t lose my mind that day, and even if I didn\u2019t, it\u2019s changed my thinking quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I was in a green grove in the local cemetery, sitting on a bench. As it is the piece of nature closest to home, I used to go there quite often. A small group of men, all at least in their 40s and wearing black suits and ties, had passed by just as the bells in the nearby church began ringing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/a-chance-encounter-in-a-graveyard-part-1\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/a-chance-encounter-in-a-graveyard-part-1\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fictional story about a man realizing for the first time, under rather unusual circumstances, that he has a deep desire not to age and die. It\u2019s been a few months already, yet that day still feels like yesterday. I am still not convinced that I didn\u2019t lose my mind that day, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81609","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}