{"id":2455,"date":"2009-10-19T21:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2009-10-19T21:51:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T21:51:27","slug":"running_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":"Running Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think of life in narrative terms: it has a beginning, middle, and end. But let&#8217;s take the analogy a little further. What if your life was measured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberdigital.com\/where\/\">according to the length of a popular movie<\/a>? How far along would you be in the movie? Using Star Wars as my yardstick (natch) and assuming an average lifespan, I&#8217;m almost halfway through the movie. The Death Star is about to blast Alderaan into tiny pieces. But if I assume a shorter lifespan (let&#8217;s say sixty years, which still seems generous), then I&#8217;m at the part where Han, Luke, and Chewie are about to rescue Princess Leia.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting way of putting mortality into perspective. I take some consolation in the fact that I haven&#8217;t missed the Rebels&#8217; assault on the Death Star. That part rules.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think of life in narrative terms: it has a beginning, middle, and end. But let&#8217;s take the analogy a little further. What if your life was measured according to the length of a popular movie? How far along would you be in the movie? Using Star Wars as my yardstick (natch) and <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2455' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-DB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}