{"id":291078,"date":"2010-02-07T22:51:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9534"},"modified":"2010-02-07T22:51:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T03:51:03","slug":"the-unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living-%e2%80%93-you-can%e2%80%99t-examine-your-life-if-you-can%e2%80%99t-remember-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/291078","title":{"rendered":"The unexamined life is not worth living. \u2013 You can\u2019t examine your life if you can\u2019t remember it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Very touching and insightful post by David Pogue at NYT, here is an excerpt from &#8220;<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/why-we-make-home-videos\/\" href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/why-we-make-home-videos\/\" >Why We Make Home Videos<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Already, my whole approach has been validated. Watching your past life is entertaining, yes, but it also makes you think, take stock, reach new conclusions about yourself and the way you live life, about the dynamic of your family and how it changes as each new child comes along.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] And I don\u2019t worry about future generations not caring; these movies aren\u2019t really for them. They\u2019re for us. These movies will play someday at my children\u2019s wedding receptions. They\u2019ll play for my wife and me on Friday nights when we\u2019re old empty-nesters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/love\/'>Love<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/people\/'>people<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/science-technology\/'>Science &amp; Technology<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9534\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=9534&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very touching and insightful post by David Pogue at NYT, here is an excerpt from &#8220;Why We Make Home Videos&#8220;, Already, my whole approach has been validated. Watching your past life is entertaining, yes, but it also makes you think, take stock, reach new conclusions about yourself and the way you live life, about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}