{"id":1344,"date":"2005-06-18T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2005-06-18T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T05:24:00","slug":"a-point-to-ponder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"A point to ponder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a distinction between wanting to make a difference with your life and wanting to devote your life to a cause.  I think I fall more into the latter category.  In Bujold&#8217;s Curse of Chalion, at the end, a distinction is drawn between saints and others, in that saints offer themselves without reservation to the gods of that fictional world.  Or the story of Ruth, &#8220;whither you go, I will follow&#8221;.  It&#8217;s hard and yet not, to give up the idea of being pivotal, of being important of being a mover and a shaker.  Reading a story by <lj user=upsidedownblue> about his life gave me a bit of pause.  I&#8217;m a militant, but sentimental agnostic.  Militant: I don&#8217;t know, and neither do you.  Sentimental: I think there is a definite value to belief and it is a beautiful thing, even if I don&#8217;t believe it is necessarily right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a distinction between wanting to make a difference with your life and wanting to devote your life to a cause. I think I fall more into the latter category. In Bujold&#8217;s Curse of Chalion, at the end, a distinction is drawn between saints and others, in that saints offer themselves without reservation to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A point to ponder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}