{"id":3850,"date":"2012-07-26T01:12:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T08:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2012-07-26T01:12:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T08:12:49","slug":"a-one-word-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/07\/26\/a-one-word-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"A One-Word Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re in Edinburgh, Scotland. Because of it I thought I’d say something pertinent to that. And we’re still in Ecclesiastes, so I wanted to say something pertinent to that, too. But what?<\/p>\n

First, though, I must confess my utter surprise at what I saw today. And with that, my utter lack of knowledge of what I might see.<\/p>\n

It was our first time to Scotland. I’d been told its beauty is legendary, and many told us to see Edinburgh. But nobody told us why.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, we drove through majestic countryside occasioned with charming structures and sheep dotted hillsides. Then we hit Edinburgh and promptly got lost. Before we finally found our destination we saw a lot of what seemed like a nice but not that extraordinary a city. We checked into our lodgings and ventured out on foot.<\/p>\n

We headed toward the castle thinking that might be quaint. Wow, was I overblown! What we saw was not only magnificent; it was over the top colossal, huge, spread out, and full of history. And the whole area was full of people. Tourists from everywhere crowed the streets. It was another message to me about how little I knew that others apparently did!<\/p>\n

In the end it was my own naivet\u00e9 that struck me as the thing most amazing.<\/p>\n

To take in as much as we could in our limited time, we hopped on a tour bus. Double decker, with guide, in English (well, Scottish). My amazement continued, now with how much history has taken place in these precincts and again by how little I’ve known of it. And that’s with me loving history!<\/p>\n

It was a great day, taking in sights, marveling, hearing about all the exploits that had gone before, wise and foolish. But what to equate it with in terms of Ecclesiastes?<\/p>\n

Vanity?<\/p>\n

\u201cVanity, vanity,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity.\u201d<\/em>*<\/p>\n

Sorry. That’s all that came to mind. It’s a summary of the human state, before and present. But I must confess I love it all. Don’t know what that says about me, but today we’re going back for more. After that I’ll get a book.<\/p>\n

There’s so much vanity to know.<\/p>\n

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*Ecclesiastes 1:2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What one word summarizes it all, even the wondrous sights and history, not to mention the vastness of my ignorance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}