{"id":17621,"date":"2016-09-12T23:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2016-09-12T23:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:11:45","slug":"turn-turn-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17621","title":{"rendered":"TURN TURN TURN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;VANITY OF VANITIES, SAYS THE TEACHER, VANITY OF VANITIES! ALL IS VANITY. WHAT DO PEOPLE GAIN FROM ALL THE TOIL AT WHICH THEY TOIL UNDER THE SUN? A GENERATION GOES, AND A GENERATION COMES. BUT THE EARTH REMAINS FOREVER.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mean to put that in <em>all caps<\/em> but I&#8217;m too tired to retype Ecclesiastes 1:2-4.<\/p>\n<p>I pushed through the last six pages of Proverbs to get to Ecclesiastes a few minutes ago. I&#8217;ve been looking forward to reading this book. <\/p>\n<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11850\">a post<\/a> in 2014 with this phrase baked into its heading. I revisited it just now but didn&#8217;t have the patience to re-read it. Way too Stream of conscientiousness. It tells how I became a fifth wheel (or third)  when two of my old gradeschool acquaintences mind melded at my mention of the Byrds&#8217; pop song <strong>Turn, Turn, Turn<\/strong>. Its a riff on the verse in  Ecclesiastes that begins &#8220;For every thing there is a season.&#8221; Too bad it wasn&#8217;t my season.<\/p>\n<p>My friends hadn&#8217;t known each other till I somehow got them together on one of my summer sojourns back from Minnesota to Kansas. They were both <em>Ace<\/em> students (I think that&#8217;s an apt description) and each was the respective President of their High School&#8217;s Senior Class, one at the venerable Topeka High the other at Topeka West. I felt like an inadvertant match maker when I learned later that they went to one of their high school Homecoming dances together. <\/p>\n<p>Serves me right not knowing anything about the Bible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;VANITY OF VANITIES, SAYS THE TEACHER, VANITY OF VANITIES! ALL IS VANITY. WHAT DO PEOPLE GAIN FROM ALL THE TOIL AT WHICH THEY TOIL&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17626,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions\/17626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}