{"id":2502,"date":"2017-07-29T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2017-07-29T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T16:24:00","slug":"both-sides-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2502","title":{"rendered":"Both Sides Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a song back in 1968 or thereabouts, with that title and have enjoyed singing it&#8212;it\u2019s by Joni Mitchell,&#160; written in 1967, re-sung by Judy Collins the next year or so. It begins, singing about clouds, \u201cBows and flows of angel\u2019s hair\u2026\u201d&#160; I was just writing to a friend back where I used to live about momentary regrets at having left central Texas (in Georgetown, north of Austin) for San Luis Obispo, in central coastal California, and found myself quoting a phrase in the last verse of that song: &quot;Something&#8217;s lost but something&#8217;s gained from living every day.&quot; \u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a song back in 1968 or thereabouts, with that title and have enjoyed singing it&#8212;it\u2019s by Joni Mitchell,&#160; written in 1967, re-sung by Judy Collins the next year or so. It begins, singing about clouds, \u201cBows and flows of angel\u2019s hair\u2026\u201d&#160; I was just writing to a friend back where I used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502"}],"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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}