A former fellow classmate posted a picture of his Og for this month. It has the usual “will”s marked out. I expected that. It had the “What am I pretending not to know?” hand-written in. I expected that. \u00a0But my eye caught this:<\/p>\n
I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a bonus,
undeserved<\/del>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI’d never lined out the “undeserved,” but that changes EVERYTHING, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
We are, indeed, fortunate, and today’s hours are a bonus.<\/p>\n
It’s still fair to ask why we have been allowed to live this extra day when others, better than us, have departed. But who are we to say those hours are “undeserved?” We have them. Let’s make the most of each one and not waste time wondering whether they are deserved or undeserved.<\/p>\n
I live this day as if it is my last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former fellow classmate posted a picture of his Og for this month. It has the usual “will”s marked out. I expected that. It had the “What am I pretending not to know?” hand-written in. I expected that. \u00a0But my eye caught this: I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a … Continue reading “Year 4, Week 17 HJ: Undeserved?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-year-four"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2017-05-03-01.30.58-e1518033754423.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6MHaR-ep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}