{"id":248,"date":"2007-05-17T06:52:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-05-17T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T13:52:43","slug":"there-is-a-lesson-here-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"There is a lesson here for me &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is I who must begin.<br \/>\nOnce I begin, once I try \u2014<br \/>\nhere and now,<br \/>\nright where I am,<br \/>\nnot excusing myself<br \/>\nby saying things<br \/>\nwould be easier elsewhere,<br \/>\nwithout grand speeches and<br \/>\nostentatious gestures,<br \/>\nbut all the more persistently<br \/>\n\u2014 to live in harmony<br \/>\nwith the &#8220;voice of Being,&#8221; as I<br \/>\nunderstand it within myself<br \/>\n\u2014 as soon as I begin that,<br \/>\nI suddenly discover,<br \/>\nto my surprise, that<br \/>\nI am neither the only one,<br \/>\nnor the first,<br \/>\nnor the most important one<br \/>\nto have set out<br \/>\nupon that road.<\/p>\n<p>Whether all is really lost<br \/>\nor not depends entirely on<br \/>\nwhether or not I am lost.<\/p>\n<p>~ Vaclav Havel ~<\/p>\n<p>(Teaching With Fire, ed. by S.M. Intrator and M. Scribner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is I who must begin. Once I begin, once I try \u2014 here and now, right where I am, not excusing myself by saying things would be easier elsewhere, without grand speeches and ostentatious gestures, but all the more persistently \u2014 to live in harmony with the &#8220;voice of Being,&#8221; as I understand it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}