{"id":52,"date":"2006-03-24T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T11:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2006-03-24T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T11:09:29","slug":"f-is-for-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/f-is-for-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"F is for Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Fate<\/strong> <em>\\Fate\\ (f[=a]t), n. [L. fatum a prophetic declaration, oracle, what is ordained by the gods, destiny, fate, fr. fari to speak: cf. OF. fat. See {Fame}, {Fable}, {Ban}, and cf. 1st {Fay}, {Fairy}.]<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.<\/li>\n<li>Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.<\/li>\n<li>The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle.<\/li>\n<li><em>pl. [L. Fata, pl. of fatum.] (Myth.)<\/em> The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the {Destinies}, or {Parc[ae]}who were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadevil.org\/gallery\/abc-along\/ABC_along_F_01\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sadevil.org\/gallery\/albums\/abc-along\/ABC_along_F_01.sized.jpg\" alt=\"F is for Fate\" width=\"60%\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Is Fate really written on the stars? And the Parcae in charge of it? Or can we make our own destiny and way in life? Should a tarot deck trace our decisions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fate \\Fate\\ (f[=a]t), n. [L. fatum a prophetic declaration, oracle, what is ordained by the gods, destiny, fate, fr. fari to speak: cf. OF. fat. See {Fame}, {Fable}, {Ban}, and cf. 1st {Fay}, {Fairy}.] A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/f-is-for-fate\/\"> 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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abc-along"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sade.sadevil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}