{"id":38,"date":"2018-03-01T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2018-06-16T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T17:40:29","slug":"the-rider-and-the-ridden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/the-rider-and-the-ridden\/","title":{"rendered":"The rider and the ridden"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The difficulty lies in learning that we ourselves encompass forces equally great. We say, \u201cI will,\u201d and \u201cI will not,\u201d and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.<br \/>\n\u2015 Gene Wolfe, Shadow &amp; Claw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difficulty lies in learning that we ourselves encompass forces equally great. We say, \u201cI will,\u201d and \u201cI will not,\u201d and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/the-rider-and-the-ridden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The rider and the ridden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[8,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","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\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}