{"id":2399,"date":"2016-09-08T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2016-09-08T16:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:02:51","slug":"i-gotta-be-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2399","title":{"rendered":"I Gotta Be Me (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon by Gary Larson over 20 years ago struck me as funny. There\u2019s a part of me who is this penguin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Igottabeme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Igottabeme\" 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=\"Igottabeme\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Igottabeme_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"739\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another part who finds my stance pitiful, because I know that there are thousands, millions of other entities working \u201cin the fields of the Lord\u201d to advance humanity and the evolution of consciousness in the cosmos. Yet it\u2019s the nature of God to motivate humans by giving them an ego, and pride. A third part, which I cultivate, watches it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cartoon by Gary Larson over 20 years ago struck me as funny. There\u2019s a part of me who is this penguin. There\u2019s another part who finds my stance pitiful, because I know that there are thousands, millions of other entities working \u201cin the fields of the Lord\u201d to advance humanity and the evolution of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-follies","category-favoritethings","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399"}],"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=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}