{"id":12,"date":"2002-12-06T20:01:02","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3500years.com\/zsallia\/?p=12"},"modified":"2002-12-06T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T20:01:02","slug":"explanations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/2002\/12\/06\/explanations\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>It is hard to write like this.<\/b>  I have spent so long making certain that I do not draw undo attention to myself that to suddenly speak clearly and simply, citing my own experience in unambiguous terms in such a public forum&#8230; it is a novel experience for me.  That is saying quite a lot for one who has spent decades the way one might spend a pleasant summer&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a liar, or a spinner of fictions, or delusional.  Hurl invective if it will make your worldview more secure.  I have been stoned, whipped, drowned, burned, banned&#8230; suffice it to say that with this share of sticks and stones behind me there is nothing that mere words can do to bring anguish to my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I am not here to make grand pronouncements.  I cannot make the world a better place.  I possess no magic, no otherworldly plans.  I have nothing but a vast encyclopedia of experience with people.  Nothing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to write like this. I have spent so long making certain that I do not draw undo attention to myself that to suddenly speak clearly and simply, citing my own experience in unambiguous terms in such a public forum&#8230; it is a novel experience for me. That is saying quite a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immortality","category-the-past","category-the-present"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaeddy.com\/3500years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}