{"id":3807,"date":"2009-04-05T06:31:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2009-04-05T06:31:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:31:01","slug":"learning-how-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"Learning how to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all looking for nirvana right? Nirvana means letting go. I feel like I&#8217;m still working through the mechanics of my pendulum, which used to be so far out of balance in how much I let others influence how I responded to myself and then swung radically into the people be damned mode. I find myself now moving towards equilibrium but I still have setbacks where I feel I have lead shoes on and can&#8217;t let go, can&#8217;t take flight. Honestly, it&#8217;s these times that I tend to dwell the longest looking at myself, listening to how others respond, trying to find if there is a message in the bottle or one of those &#8220;capara&#8221; moments as my father used to say, which I always thought meant &#8220;whatyagonnado&#8221; but I think it has some other bizarre meaning like transferring your sins to a chicken. Seriously. And chickens can&#8217;t fly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all looking for nirvana right? Nirvana means letting go. I feel like I&#8217;m still working through the mechanics of my pendulum, which used to be so far out of balance in how much I let others influence how I responded to myself and then swung radically into the people be damned mode. I find myself now moving towards equilibrium but I still have setbacks where I feel I have lead shoes on and&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-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-Zp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}