{"id":8488,"date":"2015-09-24T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=8488"},"modified":"2015-09-24T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:14:50","slug":"to-whom-it-may-concern-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/8488","title":{"rendered":"To Whom It May Concern…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Message in a bottle…<\/p>\n

“Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything.
\nMaybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you,
\nso you can be what you were meant to be in the first place.”<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

I hear them use the phrase “born again” as if it’s a single point, one extraordinary moment in a lifetime. But that’s a soul stillborn. This is why I dislike that sort of religion. He who isn’t busy being born is busy dying. \u00a0 You hear them talk about the end of the world as if it’s a thing that will happen someday. The world ends every day. And every morning a new world begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Message in a bottle… “Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be what you were meant to be in the first place.”   I hear them use the phrase “born again” as if it’s a single point, one extraordinary moment in a lifetime. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-8488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-message-in-a-bottle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}