{"id":2092,"date":"2025-05-03T13:45:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/an-ant-afterlife\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T13:45:33","slug":"an-ant-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-ant-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ant Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it\u2019s a minor thing.<br>\nMaybe it\u2019s a foolish thing.<br>\nBut I don\u2019t like the idea<br>\nof ants or any lifeforms<br>\njust dying and ending<br>\nforever.<\/p>\n<p>But, it could be my<br>\nthoughts on this matter<br>\nare moot because maybe<br>\neven humans die and<br>\nare ended forever.<\/p>\n<p>Though after reading and<br>\nlistening to many NDE\u2019s<br>\n(Near death experiences)<br>\nI find human life ending at<br>\ndeath implausible and see<br>\ndeath as a continuation<br>\nin the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe we all come<br>\nback to this life as the<br>\nHindus and others claim.<\/p>\n<p>And if reincarnation is<br>\nfactual, it may be that<br>\neven when ants die, they<br>\nincarnate to higher life<br>\nforms.<\/p>\n<p>I like the thought of that.<br>\nAn equality for all sentient<br>\nentities.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read some believe even<br>\ninsentient things reincarnate<br>\ninto sentient life forms and<br>\neventually reach total<br>\nliberation.<\/p>\n<p>I like the thought of that<br>\neven more.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it\u2019s a minor thing. Maybe it\u2019s a foolish thing. But I don\u2019t like the idea of ants or any lifeforms just dying and ending forever. But, it could be my thoughts on this matter are moot because maybe even humans die and are ended forever. Though after reading and listening to many NDE\u2019s (Near&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/an-ant-afterlife\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}