{"id":30,"date":"2022-06-11T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/?p=30"},"modified":"2022-12-13T21:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:15:44","slug":"wrapping-up-the-death-category-discussion-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wrapping-up-the-death-category-discussion-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapping up the Death Category discussion for now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very old Japanese guy once told me I was an old soul. Did I mention that before? Doesn&#8217;t matter. I was in Tokyo at the time and I was happy he thought so. It felt like it was coming from a source of authority or something. He looked like he could easily have been 100 years old. Anyway\u2026 that&#8217;s not what I was going to talk about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 20 years ago, when I and a lot of people were just beginning to live life on the internet, I had this idea that some day the internet and all of us on here would have an &#8220;internet past.&#8221; In 1998 &#8211; 99 there was little to no &#8220;history&#8221; on here. So, I waited. Well, not really. I lived my life and knew it would take the passing of time to form a history. An internet past. And now here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that Facebook wasn&#8217;t around 20 years ago? It&#8217;s a great place to live life today, but I wonder where Facebook and all those people will be 20 years from now. How about 40 years from now? 50? Personally, I have no idea. It&#8217;s not like I really care all that much. All I know is there will be a digital history and I&#8217;ll be in there\u2026 somewhere. So will you. Somewhere. I wonder,  will we ever have any control over our history?  Again, I really have no clue as to the answers to these questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve been thinking maybe some day this history we&#8217;re all making will matter to us. To someone. Anyone? Maybe it won&#8217;t. Maybe it will matter to some people and to some it won&#8217;t. That&#8217;s probably it. Just thinking out loud while trying to leave my own little &#8220;mark.&#8221; (because I doubt we&#8217;ll be able to count on that other Mark to keep our history for any reasons other than his own) I guess it&#8217;s safe to say then, that it matters to me. Yes. It definitely matters to me. So I wonder, does it matter to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading. Now back to &#8220;Life.&#8221; Have a great day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#WhoWasFaith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very old Japanese guy once told me I was an old soul. Did I mention that before? Doesn&#8217;t matter. I was in Tokyo at the time and I was happy he thought so. It felt like it was coming from a source of authority or something. He looked like he could easily have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wrapping-up-the-death-category-discussion-for-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wrapping up the Death Category discussion for now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[8,9,23,21],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","tag-whowas","tag-whowasfaith","tag-dftag","tag-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whowas.com\/faith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}