{"id":1571,"date":"2022-03-31T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:24:03","slug":"paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/03\/31\/paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Zeno-of-Elea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Zeno-of-Elea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Zeno-of-Elea.jpg 800w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Zeno-of-Elea-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Zeno-of-Elea-768x449.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Paradox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">There was a<br \/>\ndeep thinker<br \/>\nnamed Zeno,<br \/>\nwho loved to<br \/>\nponder his<br \/>\nparadoxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cWhat if,\u201d<br \/>\nhe surmised,<br \/>\n\u201cit\u2019s impossible<br \/>\nto get there<br \/>\nfrom here,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">because no<br \/>\nmatter<br \/>\nhow far<br \/>\nyou think<br \/>\nyou have gotten,<br \/>\nwhen you reach<br \/>\nthe halfway<br \/>\npoint<br \/>\nthere will always<br \/>\nbe a similar<br \/>\ndistance<br \/>\nremaining?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Always.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Into eternity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You will never<br \/>\nget there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if,<br \/>\nI surmise,<br \/>\nwe\u2019ve been<br \/>\nbamboozled<br \/>\nby a thousand<br \/>\nZenos<br \/>\ninto believing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">there\u2019s<br \/>\nsomewhere<br \/>\nelse<br \/>\nwe must be,<br \/>\nor some One<br \/>\nelse<br \/>\nwe must be,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and we\u2019ll never<br \/>\nget there<br \/>\nfrom here?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">What if<br \/>\nwe\u2019re already<br \/>\nthere,<br \/>\nthe One<br \/>\nwe\u2019ve always<br \/>\nbeen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Paradox There was a deep thinker named Zeno, who loved to ponder his paradoxes. \u201cWhat if,\u201d he surmised, \u201cit\u2019s impossible to get there from here, because no matter how far you think you have gotten, when you reach the halfway point there will always be a similar distance remaining? Always. Into eternity. You will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}