{"id":1141,"date":"2024-08-25T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:21:28","slug":"oh-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/oh-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh to be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem105.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem105.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem105-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem105-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The world sees you in terms of opposites: light and dark, love and hate,<br>good and evil\u2026<br>and that is how you learn to see yourself.<br>You throw yourself from one extreme to another, turning your life into<br>tragedy performed in the binary rhythm of a farce;<br>you adopt grand poses and build unbelievable justifications, Don Quixote<br>fighting conventional windmills\u2026<br>How precious then is your reflection in the eyes of a child, where<br>values become unimportant<br>and you can simply be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world sees you in terms of opposites: light and dark, love and hate,good and evil\u2026and that is how you learn to see yourself.You throw yourself from one extreme to another, turning your life intotragedy performed in the binary rhythm of a farce;you adopt grand poses and build unbelievable justifications, Don Quixotefighting conventional windmills\u2026How precious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18,201,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}