{"id":92,"date":"2001-05-23T23:26:39","date_gmt":"2001-05-24T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2001-05-23T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2001-05-24T06:26:39","slug":"so-i-vowed-to-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/05\/so-i-vowed-to-keep\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;So I vowed to keep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me. Each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking instead of trying to accommodate everyone else&#8217;s opinion, credo&#8217;s and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth.<br \/>\n&#8211; Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we&#8217;re lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it&#8217;s worse than fear &#8211; it&#8217;s active disengagement.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Ken Burns, Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me. Each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking instead of trying to accommodate everyone else&#8217;s opinion, credo&#8217;s and theories. I vowed to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/05\/so-i-vowed-to-keep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8230;So I vowed to keep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}