{"id":2034,"date":"2007-11-27T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2007-11-27T14:06:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T19:06:39","slug":"alchemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"Alchemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a note to my fellow limo passengers and said, wow, we went from zero to sixty in no time, how did we do that? And the response was a resounding, you!\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>I&#8217;ve been pensive lately about another common denominator &#8211; a dangerous liaison which has caused me to question myself, my motives, all thrown in with a little roughing myself up for choices I have made in the past and recently and wanting more than anything to do only those things that would make me proud of myself. I do subscribe to Maya Angelou&#8217;s wisdom &#8211; <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #222222; font-family: verdana; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal\">You did then what you knew how to do and when you knew better&#8230; you did better!<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; we are a certain way, we have a proclivity to burn at a certain flame, we attract those who are attracted to the multifacetedness of ourselves &#8211; the good and the bad &#8211; but we are the common denominator in our actions.\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>A bright flame provides comfort and warmth and light, it doesn&#8217;t have to burn, destroy and disrupt. But you have to know that, it&#8217;s the alchemy that occurs when you know.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent a note to my fellow limo passengers and said, wow, we went from zero to sixty in no time, how did we do that? And the response was a resounding, you!\u00a0I&#8217;ve been pensive lately about another common denominator &#8211; a dangerous liaison which has caused me to question myself, my motives, all thrown in with a little roughing myself up for choices I have made in the past and recently and wanting more&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-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1kHSD-alchemy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}