{"id":1230,"date":"2019-01-18T15:02:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2020-02-07T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:49:22","slug":"the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"The Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tears of golden glass. A sunset refracted through crying eyes. Fear and sadness are siblings. They prey on hope and desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#cd0003\" class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It will never happen. You have lost before you started. You will never see the fruition of your efforts, feel the success of your calling. It is all stillborn. So why try?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why try? Because there is no other path, no other choice. To be myself &#8211; to truly inhabit this body and this brain and this heart, to truly honor this life &#8211; the only choice is forward&#8230; even if it is leads to failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0088bb\" class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The Journey The Journey The Journey The Journey The Journey The Journey The Journey The Journey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0088bb\" class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>It is impossible to fail because the purpose is The Journey, to acknowledge and experience and feel The Journey, wherever it may lead and whatever it may bring.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#0088bb\" class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>So you are incapable of failing &#8211; not ever, not truly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tears of golden glass. A sunset refracted through crying eyes. Fear and sadness are siblings. They prey on hope and desire. It will never happen. You have lost before you started. You will never see the fruition of your efforts, feel the success of your calling. It is all stillborn. So why try? Why try? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/?p=1230\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Journey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benignchaos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}