{"id":182,"date":"2012-11-03T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-choices-we-make\/"},"modified":"2012-11-03T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T06:51:00","slug":"the-choices-we-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/the-choices-we-make\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choices We Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The choices we make, make us. Ah, we&#39;ve heard that before.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me, there is a great gap between what we understand about choices and what they result in. We should be more reflective. Think it through and weigh the options. I&#39;m sure wise men and scholars from long ago would be laughing at me writing that, but alas here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s face it, we live in a very arrogant age, while many long for humility. I don&#39;t know if there&#39;s a way back. Well, I do, but I&#39;m not sure if the vast are willing to make the trip. They&#39;re like the gambler who says to himself the next wager is worth losing it all.<\/p>\n<p>Do you need to turn around?<\/p>\n<p>The choices we make do matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choices we make, make us. Ah, we&#8217;ve heard that before. Seems to me, there is a great gap between what we understand about choices and what they result in. We should be more reflective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128,659,267,658,660],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","tag-choices","tag-decisions","tag-meaning","tag-the-choices-we-make","tag-what-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}