{"id":1274,"date":"2013-08-01T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:15:16","slug":"importuning-the-great-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Importuning the Great Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To importune means to ask (someone) pressingly and persistently for or to do something. Other becomings (a better word than beings as all is in flux) elsewhere in the multi-verse do this too. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/importuning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"importuning\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"importuning\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/importuning_thumb.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However we are, there are riddles. Huston Smith, the scholar of comparative religions, defines the words tellingly: A puzzle requires a knack, once you get it, voila! A problem is more ambiguous. What are generally called detective mysteries are really problems. A true mystery is something that, the more you discover about it, the more you also discover that there is yet much more to discover. I love this, and see it manifested in so many ways in cosmology, biology, whatever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To importune means to ask (someone) pressingly and persistently for or to do something. Other becomings (a better word than beings as all is in flux) elsewhere in the multi-verse do this too. However we are, there are riddles. Huston Smith, the scholar of comparative religions, defines the words tellingly: A puzzle requires a knack, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,25,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}