{"id":1662,"date":"2016-02-19T04:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2016-02-19T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T11:55:20","slug":"nothing-gold-can-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Gold Can Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15017.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1663\" \/><\/a>\u201cNothing gold can stay.\u201d It\u2019s my favorite line from my favorite poem by my favorite poet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNature\u2019s first green is gold,\u201d wrote Robert Frost, yet it\u2019s \u201cher hardest hue to hold.\u201d And while \u201cher early leaf\u2019s a flower,\u201d it\u2019s \u201conly so an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poet was describing what philosophers call the law of mutability, what scientists call the second law of thermodynamics, and what Judeo-Christian theologians attribute to The Fall. Nothing stays the same. Eventually, all things run down. Only heaven is forever.<\/p>\n<p>Some days, I wish I could go on teaching these students, in these classes, at this college forever. But, put simply, that option is not open.<\/p>\n<p>The thought helps when I\u2019m feeling guilty about leaving such a cherished place. If not this year, then the next or the next because\u2014on this fallen planet\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Nothing gold can stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNothing gold can stay.\u201d It\u2019s my favorite line from my favorite poem by my favorite poet. \u201cNature\u2019s first green is gold,\u201d wrote Robert Frost, yet it\u2019s \u201cher hardest hue to hold.\u201d And while \u201cher early leaf\u2019s a flower,\u201d it\u2019s \u201conly so an hour.\u201d The poet was describing what philosophers call the law of mutability, what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}