{"id":668,"date":"2022-08-18T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=668"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:15","slug":"to-perceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/18\/to-perceive\/","title":{"rendered":"To perceive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-potato-pie-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-potato-pie-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-potato-pie-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-potato-pie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-potato-pie-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sweet-potato-pie.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>It&#8217;s Purple and Sweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">It is a crazy world we are living in, and I continually put undue pressure on myself. <br>Why? <br>It is the nature of the beast, with the beast being powers and principalities. Forces seen and unseen. I can say am excited about November. I am a single man, who has come to the conclusion that dating, and love are as popular as this beautiful, purple Sweet Potato Pie. <br><br>This is why I jumped into politics.  (Not really)&#8230; I have been public service minded most of my life. I have been in the election process several times&#8230;.starting as a Democrat in 1988 against Cleddie Shock for Constable of Pine Bluff.  He was a former Police Chief, so, I had that against me. I lost in the primary. However in 2010, I was elected as a Republican, to that post. I&#8217;ve run for Coroner and State Rep. District 17. All to serve the Pine Bluff folks.<br><br>Our government is broken, and two does NOT a &#8220;Party&#8221; make.<br><br>Liberty on Purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a crazy world we are living in, and I continually put undue pressure on myself. Why? It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"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-668","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\/2022\/08\/shtzoo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}