{"id":2202,"date":"2024-08-02T19:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:14","slug":"world-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/world-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"World on Fire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"524\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/play-list.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2203\" style=\"width:239px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/play-list.jpg 524w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/play-list-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7d1b6f211fc08222e4cfbc461e404ea6 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;.. is just the beginning as we are on figurative, literal and spiritual fire right now. Not a choice place to be. I change what I can when I can. Society needs manners and someone with real gonads. Experience is an excellent teacher provided you can take instruction without needing the use of a safe room.<br><br>     IRL we must pick our battles. Sometimes the best short-cut is the long way around. Family time and relationships are what you make them&#8230;(or you don&#8217;t, because you&#8217;re afraid of something you can&#8217;t describe.) Fear paralyzes, I KNOW, KNOW this. I am writing a book on it. Procrastination is another ball of wax. &#8230;.  and I&#8217;ll get to addressing it later.<br><br>Be strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.. is just the beginning as we are on figurative, literal and spiritual fire right now. Not a choice place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"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-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/new.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}