{"id":12271,"date":"2009-05-26T08:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/nugatory.html"},"modified":"2009-05-26T08:30:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T08:30:31","slug":"nugatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/05\/26\/nugatory.html","title":{"rendered":"Nugatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I arrived at a shell of a thought last week.<\/p>\n<p>The whiff of mortality crossed my palette.<\/p>\n<p>The reality of this earthly vessel&#8217;s failure tickled the back of my mind while<br \/>thinking about baseball. Yes, baseball.<\/p>\n<p>If we can accept and assume the use of steroids by a majority of players in the country&#8217;s only genuinely competitive baseball league then I think we can abandon our perceived indignities and look to the future of these things &#8212; a future where comparable drugs are not just undetectable but safe and legal. Players will hit hundreds of home runs per season and &#8212; without ever tiring &#8212; play baseball from sunrise to midnight 365 days a year. Professional athletes will not just live longer, they will live forever, and their secrets of immortality will eventually trickle down to commoners who choose immortality.<\/p>\n<p>Not in this lifetime, not for this body, not for this person who finds that none of this life&#8217;s adventures or quotidian battles find comfort in knowing they will be extinguished when my earthly paces are finished.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-nugatory","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}