{"id":2299,"date":"2024-10-15T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:17","slug":"pre-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/pre-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/funk-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2301\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8f30e76f22ef9756942401a1572c359f\">Do you have the need to jam? Life is music. Love is subjective.<br>     I used to solve my issues away with libations. Little Secret&#8230;.(it never worked.) However, the good thing is that the grip of alcoholism did not snare me like it did my Dad, and uncles on both sides of the family. I count my blessings because my kind of crazy is unique. <br>Can you say: R-I-T-U-A-L-S<br>Escape off, out of sight from the company or crowd, to bend my own ear (yeah, cup it) so that I could repeat what was going on, and how it would affect me. (also because I was not in a position to write it down). [As for writing, my issues started in the 3rd grade] I could not tolerate the sound or texture of a lead pencil scratching against the paper&#8230;..so I USED INK&#8230; sorry that I digress but one is inextricably tied to the other. <br>     I think I will save the intricate details for the book OR I may follow up next week. In the meantime, practice patience. I have learned much as a trailblazer. We as a people, waste too much NOW time concerning ourselves for tomorrow and ultimately we can&#8217;t buy time, only the watch that keeps us in check. As Christian&#8217;s, we are held accountable for our idle words and time. ~~~ but we are also forgiven.<br>Step out of the shadows, and into the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have the need to jam? Life is music. Love is subjective. I used to solve my issues away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","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\/10\/fff.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}