{"id":951,"date":"2003-06-07T22:32:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-08T06:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=951"},"modified":"2006-06-08T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:03:13","slug":"can-immortals-be-said-to-have-a-life-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"can immortals be said to have a life-cycle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On reading <i>The Silmarillion<\/i> I was mildly bothered that, in a story mainly about Elves, Elvish children are never mentioned.  (Half-Elf children appear in a couple of episodes, as baggage.)  Children are relatively scarce among immortals (because they spend a smaller fraction of their time <em>as<\/em> children), but still, a number of prominent Elves were born during the period chronicled, and you&#8217;d think at least one of them might have done something memorable before coming of age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youthtopia.ranters.net\/index.php?strip=121802-180823.jpg\">This cartoon<\/a> suggests an answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006:<\/strong> That site&#8217;s archive has been reorganized and I can&#8217;t find the scene in question.  It had several humans and a vampire chatting over coffee.  <i>Human:<\/i> &#8220;You look about nineteen, but being a vampire you could be any age, right? So, are you centuries old?&#8221; <i>Vampire:<\/i> &#8220;I&#8217;m twelve.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On reading The Silmarillion I was mildly bothered that, in a story mainly about Elves, Elvish children are never mentioned. (Half-Elf children appear in a couple of episodes, as baggage.) Children are relatively scarce among immortals (because they spend a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}