{"id":2883,"date":"2014-02-10T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2016-10-10T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:10:41","slug":"an-epitaph-all-readers-can-relate-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/an-epitaph-all-readers-can-relate-to","title":{"rendered":"An Epitaph All Readers Can Relate To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Benjamin-Franklin.png\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin\" width=\"511\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Benjamin-Franklin.png 511w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Benjamin-Franklin-300x216.png 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Benjamin-Franklin-500x361.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There have been few people as wise, eloquent, and humorous as Benjamin Franklin. Evidence: the epitaph he wrote for himself when he was but a young printer in 1729 (Alas, it was not, in the end, used on his gravestone.):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Body<br \/>\nof<br \/>\nBenjamin Franklin, Printer<br \/>\n(Like the cover of an old book,<br \/>\nIts contents torn out<br \/>\nAnd stript of its lettering and gilding,)<br \/>\nLies food for worms:<br \/>\nYet the work itself shall not be lost,<br \/>\nFor it will (as he believed) appear once more<br \/>\nIn a new<br \/>\nAnd more beautiful edition,<br \/>\nCorrected and amended<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nThe Author.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000XUAE58\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B000XUAE58&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=nickslists-20\"><em>A Passion for Books<\/em><\/a>, edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been few people as wise, eloquent, and humorous as Benjamin Franklin. Evidence: the epitaph he wrote for himself when he was but a young printer in 1729 (Alas, it was not, in the end, used on his gravestone.): The Body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies food for worms: Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believed) appear once more In a new&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[493,494,495],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-epitaphs","tag-gravestones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Benjamin-Franklin.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-Kv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}