{"id":159782,"date":"2021-05-31T00:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=159782"},"modified":"2021-05-31T00:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T18:59:42","slug":"dying-in-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/31\/dying-in-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying in oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Editor,<\/strong><br \/>\nI have always wondered about my legacy; about what I will be known for or how I will be remembered after I die. These questions have started coming to my mind more often now that we are right in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic. And with the world-class medical facilities we have at our disposal in Arunachal, I am pretty sure we are all going to die, barring politicians and rich people, of course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do I want a stadium to be named after me? Do I want to reconstruct my house when the people around me are all dying, only to be remembered as the chief architect of the house? Do I want people to remember me every time they get a dose of medicine?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As tempting as these may sound, I would rather die in oblivion than want any of those things.<br \/>\n<strong>Anonymous Arunachalee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor, I have always wondered about my legacy; about what I will be known for or how I will be remembered after I die. These questions have started coming to my mind more often now that we are right in the middle of the second wave of the pandemic. And with the world-class medical facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}