{"id":1137,"date":"2022-11-22T06:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:15","slug":"the-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/11\/22\/the-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/an.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1139\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Contemplation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Behind the scenes? In the front? Nashville? <br><br>     Many people are on the hustle. Life without direction is absurd, though at times we NEED to wonder to clear our minds. But at what cost?  Four wives and drop-top vette later? I am no closer to solving any riddles. But I need to stay active each day. <br><br>      Sometimes I sit and ponder<br>      Looking at the endearing wonder<br>      Of a life on the far banks of yonder.<br>      and a phone on vibrate never rings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the scenes? In the front? Nashville? Many people are on the hustle. Life without direction is absurd, though at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/checkmate.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}