{"id":1093,"date":"2010-05-20T20:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T04:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2010-05-20T22:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T06:02:43","slug":"why-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/why-do-this","title":{"rendered":"Why do this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My friend James Melcher asked me,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I wanted to send you this question that popped into my head&#8230;.( yes<br \/>\nit&#8217;s regarding your life at the present moment)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>What&#8217;s the Gift in the Chaos?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>And my words came easily, though maybe not confidently&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC_0088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1099\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"DSC_0088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/DSC_0088-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;I feel as though I have stepped out of the illusion of stability in order to gain freedom. The freedom to do what I want to do, and the way I want to do it. Call me crazy, but I feel that as long as we are productive, we can do anything and make a living from it. Good intentions leading into useful innovations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend James Melcher asked me, &#8220;I wanted to send you this question that popped into my head&#8230;.( yes it&#8217;s regarding your life at the present moment) What&#8217;s the Gift in the Chaos?&#8221; And my words came easily, though maybe not confidently&#8230; &#8220;I feel as though I have stepped out of the illusion of stability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}