{"id":341,"date":"2015-02-06T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2015-02-06T09:12:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:12:31","slug":"the-way-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"The Way It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>There&#8217;s a thread you follow. It goes among<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>things that change. But it doesn&#8217;t change.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>People wonder about what you are pursuing.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>You have to explain about the thread.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>But it is hard for others to see.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>While you hold it you can&#8217;t get lost.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Tragedies hapen; people get hurt<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>or die; and you suffer and get old.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>Nothing you do can stop time&#8217;s unfolding.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em><strong>You don&#8217;t ever let go of the thread.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; William Stafford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn&#8217;t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can&#8217;t get lost. Tragedies hapen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roses-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roseclifegoals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}