{"id":405,"date":"2024-06-15T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:48:54","slug":"brigid-why-you-have-to-grow-old-but-you-dont-have-to-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Brigid: &#8220;Why you have to grow old, but you don&#8217;t have to grow up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Yes that&#8217;s Farandaville philosophy &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"204\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3a610de200c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10583\" title=\"Santayana quote\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3a610de200c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3a610de200c-500wi-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiringquotes.com\/inspiration\/659da041f8ceb81430ff1870?liu=f70b42efe7cc5e5e8a195bf55a59a171&amp;utm_source=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=2023051237\">George Santayana<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Santayana was a Spanish-born American writer and philosopher in the early 20th century. A prolific man of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiringquotes.com\/beautiful-lines-from-10-historic-letters\/YqvOscgVJQAGE4JX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>letters<\/u><\/a>, Santayana believed in the human capability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiringquotes.com\/education-quotes-for-the-lifelong-learner\/YVzgBzTAMwAGYi6f\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>learn, regardless of age<\/u><\/a>. He resigned his post at Harvard University after only five years to pursue his own studies, which led him to publish numerous works \u2014 from novels to philosophy treatises. His words here remind us that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiringquotes.com\/15-quotes-to-change-your-perspective-on-getting-older\/YEJcaLQR2wAGlA1m\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>real youth is mental<\/u><\/a>, not physical: In staying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiringquotes.com\/quotes-about-curiosity\/YKSGKX-NggAHrT_h\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>curious<\/u><\/a> and lighthearted, we can experience youth at any age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes that&#8217;s Farandaville philosophy &#8211; George Santayana George Santayana was a Spanish-born American writer and philosopher in the early 20th century. A prolific man of letters, Santayana believed in the human capability to learn, regardless of age. He resigned his post at Harvard University after only five years to pursue his own studies, which led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10584,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/10584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}