{"id":320,"date":"2018-05-10T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2018-05-10T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T04:01:15","slug":"the-secret-locked-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/the-secret-locked-within\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret locked within"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them &#8212; words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they&#8217;re brought out. But it&#8217;s more than that, isn&#8217;t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you&#8217;ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That&#8217;s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.<br \/>\n~ Stephen King<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them &#8212; words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they&#8217;re brought out. But it&#8217;s more than that, isn&#8217;t it? The most important things &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/the-secret-locked-within\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The secret locked within&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-philosophy","category-quotes","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}