{"id":2217,"date":"2024-08-08T21:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:18","slug":"lifeblood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/lifeblood\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeblood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/crank.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2218\" style=\"width:251px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/crank.jpg 720w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/crank-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/crank-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f179d1c50538a1fec04ce77f039e0ec7 wp-block-paragraph\">How many?  Idk.<br>How much left? Idk.<br>     The quality matters more than quantity. The line forms at the back, for the last shall be first&#8230;then the first will be last. Take a ticket and go to the end of the line.<br>     Sometimes it is easier said than done. A strong will is a blessing and a curse. There was a time when I entertained &#8220;Fear&#8221;&#8230; of anything and everything, but not today. Growing older has its rewards in the fact that the lines are more defined.  Willy-Nilly is out of a job. <br>     The earth quakes somewhere each day, at times with a deadly outcome. <br>How come it&#8217;s called quicksand if it moves so slow? Facts and the familiar take us to the next stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many? Idk.How much left? Idk. The quality matters more than quantity. The line forms at the back, for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2219,"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_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-2217","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\/qu.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}