{"id":964,"date":"2005-12-22T13:06:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/are_you_a_freak\/"},"modified":"2005-12-22T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T13:06:04","slug":"are_you_a_freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/are_you_a_freak\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You A Freak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My title shouldn&#8217;t offend&#8230;it is a term of compliment.&nbsp; Really.&nbsp; The freaks, the misfits, or the weird are to be admired.&nbsp; Most of the time they are agents of change.&nbsp; I find it ironic that these folks are often ostracized in their places of organization.&nbsp; Conversely, those that fit in are often those who contribute to the malaise.&nbsp; Kind of like high school isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a &quot;freak&quot; it can be lonely and painful.&nbsp; Take heart and don&#8217;t give up.&nbsp; Your thoughts could be the seeds of change needed.&nbsp; You must understand that people desire order, stability and security.&nbsp; Those that are different and excellent in their ideas, are a threat.&nbsp; So what do you do?&nbsp; Be clear and connect.&nbsp; If you do this with the right people you&#8217;ll build a community that will be very powerful.&nbsp; Don&#8217;t worry about those that don&#8217;t see what you see, and don&#8217;t want to consider.&nbsp; You don&#8217;t have time to waste.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If you are a freak, the world needs you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My title shouldn&#8217;t offend&#8230;it is a term of compliment.&nbsp; Really.&nbsp; The freaks, the misfits, or the weird are to be admired.&nbsp; Most of the time they are agents of change.&nbsp; I find it ironic that these folks are often ostracized in their places of organization.&nbsp; Conversely, those that fit in are often those who contribute&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}