{"id":744,"date":"2014-08-25T00:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2014-08-25T00:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:42:47","slug":"for-you-are-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/for-you-are-life\/","title":{"rendered":"For you are life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thermodynamic miracles&#8230; events with odds against so astronomical they&#8217;re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter&#8230; Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold&#8230; that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget&#8230; I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another&#8217;s vantage point, as if new, it may still take our breath away.<\/p>\n<p>For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Dr. Manhattan, Watchmen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermodynamic miracles&#8230; events with odds against so astronomical they&#8217;re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/for-you-are-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For you are life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}