{"id":6366,"date":"2023-03-31T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"entropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"ENTROPY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week our washing machine finally gave out. It served us well &#8211; even if noisily &#8211; for 16 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given enough time, things fall apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, I am rapidly approaching my 55th birthday. My eyes are weak and my left ear gives me muffled reception and I am overdue for a colonoscopy. (Scared what THAT might discover.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entropy is a fact of the universe. Growing old is a daily battle of coming to grips with the unhurried power of entropy firsthand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only way to slow entropy is to add energy to a system. With effort, it can be slowed &#8230; but not ultimately stopped. And certainly not reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except for one place.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your spirit!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<i>Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.<\/i>&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; 2 Corinthians 4:16<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is good news.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our washing machine finally gave out. It served us well &#8211; even if noisily &#8211; for 16 years.\u00a0 Given enough time, things fall apart.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I am rapidly approaching my 55th birthday. My eyes are weak and my left ear gives me muffled reception and I am overdue for a colonoscopy. (Scared what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6367,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}