{"id":411,"date":"2012-04-07T11:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2012-04-07T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T19:34:49","slug":"zordaks-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Zordak&rsquo;s Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My little flying saucer little green man friend Zordak was explaining: <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bunnyeaster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"bunnyeaster\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bunnyeaster\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bunnyeaster-thumb.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> The Easter Bunny is an example of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neoteny\">neoteny<\/a>\u2014the tendency of species to take on the qualities of the young child\u2014which evokes instinctual responses of \u201ccute\u201d and the desire to nurture, to have around as pets, or stuffed toys.&#160; It speaks to the archetypes of new beginnings, as does the symbol of the eggs. Baby chicks and baby ducks add to this impression, this evoking of feelings of sweetness in our nature. We in turn feel that we\u2019re good, we\u2019re doing something, being something nice. So the whole complex is feel-good. Pair that with springtime, coloring eggs, and then pair that up with some major religious celebration\u2014Passover or Easter, for example\u2014well, you have a celebration. <\/p>\n<p>In my transdimensional travels I have noticed&#160; (Zordak said) that various analogies to Easter operate in most worlds. The cycles of life seem to involve a relieved and joyous marveling at new beginnings. Depending on the geography and nature of the life-form\u2014some don\u2019t have \u201cseasons\u201d as we know them, for example\u2014these images can take startlingly different formats. Among the butterfly-people of Bazoozy\u2014these are rough translations\u2014the time of emergence from cocoon is a time for nectar-sipping, and the nectar has had a chance to ferment in the interim, so there are mind-altering expansion-istic processes that lubricate the celebration. Translation: Chocolate-covered marshmallow bunnies. So we thought you\u2019d like to know what\u2019s up elsewhere and that your enjoyment of Easter is perfectly normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little flying saucer little green man friend Zordak was explaining: The Easter Bunny is an example of neoteny\u2014the tendency of species to take on the qualities of the young child\u2014which evokes instinctual responses of \u201ccute\u201d and the desire to nurture, to have around as pets, or stuffed toys.&#160; It speaks to the archetypes 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":[19,14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-foolin","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}