{"id":9997,"date":"2018-06-27T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9997"},"modified":"2018-06-27T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:21:22","slug":"just-never-let-yourself-forget-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9997","title":{"rendered":"Just Never Let Yourself Forget Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bewaretheabyss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9998\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bewaretheabyss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bewaretheabyss.jpg 960w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bewaretheabyss-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/bewaretheabyss-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve a long and dirty fight ahead of us. It&#8217;s okay to be angry. But don&#8217;t become anger. It&#8217;s okay to be afraid. But don&#8217;t become fear. Because then you will forget why it mattered that you were angry and afraid. It matters because love matters. It matters because without love and trust and hope, and dreams of what could be, civilization is not possible. Then there is only the jungle. It&#8217;s okay to be angry. It&#8217;s okay to be afraid. But don&#8217;t let the jungle in. You will get lost. Remember you are not anger, you are not fear, you are human. Remember the possibility of love is why it matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We&#8217;ve a long and dirty fight ahead of us. It&#8217;s okay to be angry. But don&#8217;t become anger. It&#8217;s okay to be afraid. But don&#8217;t become fear. Because then you will forget why it mattered that you were angry and afraid. It matters because love matters. It matters because without love and trust and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[99,78],"class_list":["post-9997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-the-human-status","tag-the-struggle-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997","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=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}