{"id":9905,"date":"2018-02-09T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T18:20:15","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to live forever\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/EternalLife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9908\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/EternalLife.jpg\" alt=\"EternalLife\" width=\"268\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a>Rachel is a woman with a problem: immortal life. Her recent troubles\u2015widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son\u2015are only the latest of her problems. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she\u2019s tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.<\/p>\n<p>But as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren\u2015consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering\u2015develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel is a woman with a problem: immortal life. Her recent troubles\u2015widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son\u2015are only the latest of her problems. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/what-does-it-mean-to-live-forever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/9910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}