{"id":2238,"date":"2024-11-03T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2024-11-03T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:36:23","slug":"choices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/11\/03\/choices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/256_2018_0601_104518_Roses_Small-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/256_2018_0601_104518_Roses_Small-1024x698.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/256_2018_0601_104518_Roses_Small-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/256_2018_0601_104518_Roses_Small-768x523.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/256_2018_0601_104518_Roses_Small.jpg 1174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Choices are difficult.<br>You choose life and passion &#8211;<br>of course you do!<br>But there,<br>in the centre,<br>in the shadows and folds,<br>death lurks.<br>Decay of complacency,<br>lack of emotional investment today<br>breeds the boredom of tomorrow,<br>black mold overgrowing your passion,<br>smothering it in a soft, furry blanket,<br>killing it through comfort,<br>illusion of safety,<br>abdication of control\u2026<br>To keep life<br>you have to keep choosing it<br>every day,<br>every hour,<br>every minute.<br>And you do &#8211;<br>of course you do &#8211;<br>until you tire<br>and let the mold take over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choices are difficult.You choose life and passion &#8211;of course you do!But there,in the centre,in the shadows and folds,death lurks.Decay of complacency,lack of emotional investment todaybreeds the boredom of tomorrow,black mold overgrowing your passion,smothering it in a soft, furry blanket,killing it through comfort,illusion of safety,abdication of control\u2026To keep lifeyou have to keep choosing itevery day,every hour,every [&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":[358,357,160,197,128,19,356,23,259,355,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}