{"id":16378,"date":"2017-12-08T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=16378"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"reality-is-a-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/reality-is-a-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality is a Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reality is a lion, crouching patiently in the tall grass.<\/p>\n<p>Others pantomime their fantasies declaring, &#8220;I am a rhinoceros&#8221; or &#8220;I am an elephant, the lion cannot hurt me!&#8221;\u00a0 Since they are in fact gazelles they will, in their defiant arrogance, strut too close to the tall grass.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their posturing they then become lion-lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality is a lion, crouching patiently in the tall grass. Others pantomime their fantasies declaring, &ldquo;I am a rhinoceros&rdquo; or &ldquo;I am an elephant, the lion cannot hurt me!&rdquo;&nbsp; Since they are in fact gazelles they will, in their defiant arrogance, strut too close to the tall grass. Despite their posturing they then become lion-lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-16378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21475,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions\/21475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}