{"id":1659,"date":"2020-01-29T23:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/conundrum\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T23:23:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T04:23:01","slug":"conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m re-reading Mary Oliver&#8217;s collection of essays entitled &#8220;Upstream&#8221; and found this question at the end of a lovely story about her dog Sammy who endlessly chewed through ropes and climbed fences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Or maybe it&#8217;s all about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It spoke to me and made me pause.  My first thought was that my commitments (work, family, volunteer) are a rope that is keeping me from realizing my desires. But then I wondered, &#8220;maybe my desires are a rope that is keeping me from being content with what I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m re-reading Mary Oliver&#8217;s collection of essays entitled &#8220;Upstream&#8221; and found this question at the end of a lovely story about her dog Sammy who endlessly chewed through ropes and climbed fences: &#8220;Or maybe it&#8217;s all about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.&#8221; It spoke to&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[184,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-ramblings"],"pbg_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847.jpg",2048,2048,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847-2048x2048.jpg",2048,2048,true],"neve-blog":["https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-1580357689847.jpg",620,620,false]},"pbg_author_info":{"display_name":"kapn","author_link":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/author\/mm_admin\/","author_img":"<img alt='kapn' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8e479fb96fd31e31371683cb63c9cc986de5a9d7d1c8cebfd39f5b4560f260a?s=128&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8e479fb96fd31e31371683cb63c9cc986de5a9d7d1c8cebfd39f5b4560f260a?s=256&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"},"pbg_comment_info":" No Comments","pbg_excerpt":"I&#8217;m re-reading Mary Oliver&#8217;s collection of essays entitled &#8220;Upstream&#8221; and found this question at the end of a lovely story about her dog Sammy who endlessly chewed through ropes and climbed fences: &#8220;Or maybe it&#8217;s all about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.&#8221; It spoke to&hellip;&nbsp;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mm.kapn.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}