{"id":1853,"date":"2007-10-22T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2016-07-01T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:10:16","slug":"i-live-in-a-world-of-finished-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"I live in a world of finished things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early to bed, early to rise. To pouring down rain that is. I mean pouring. I woke to the rain and didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed. Monday morning, rain, too much to do &#8211; what was my motivation? I looked over at the door to where the Smiley face was hanging and had to smile myself. <\/p>\n<p>Loca stood nose to window for most of the morning while I waited for a break in the action to get them outside. It came quickly, and just as quickly was gone. In the meantime, I made my cay tea and ate a bowl of oatmeal. <\/p>\n<p>Today a list of things to do, but first I started with an acceptance that some things are what they are and I cannot will them, think them, reconsider them into something else. If I accept at face value that these things have happened, then I can go forward. It&#8217;s the holding onto the &#8220;ifs&#8221; that keep me from progress. I accept that. <\/p>\n<p>In the face of all the things that could have happened differently over the course of 2007 &#8211; things happened the way they did &#8211; and I accept that and am finished with them. <\/p>\n<p>Doors close, others open &#8211; such is the way of the world, Grasshopper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early to bed, early to rise. To pouring down rain that is. I mean pouring. I woke to the rain and didn&#8217;t want to get out of bed. Monday morning, rain, too much to do &#8211; what was my motivation? I looked over at the door to where the Smiley face was hanging and had to smile myself. Loca stood nose to window for most of the morning while I waited for a break in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-tT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21217,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/21217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}